After Discourse is an interdisciplinary response to the recent trend away from linguistic and textual approaches and towards things and their affects.

The new millennium brought about serious changes to the intellectual landscape.Favoured approaches associated with the linguistic and the textual lost some oftheir currency, and were followed by a new curiosity and concern for things andtheir natures. Gathering contributions from archaeology, heritage studies, history,geography, literature, and philosophy, After Discourse offers a range of reflections on what things are, how we become affected by them, and the ethical concernsthey give rise to. Through a varied constellation of case studies, it explores ways of dealing with matters which fall outside, become othered from, or simply cannot begrasped through perspectives derived solely from language and discourse.

After Discourse provides challenging new perspectives for scholars and studentsinterested in other-than-textual encounters between people and the objects withwhich we share the world.