ABSTRACT
How do things make places, and how do places make the making of things more or less possible? For me, these have been productive naive questions that have structured inquiries in resonance, which I reexamine further below. Yet it is perhaps not entirely clear that one needs to think through place at all when considering ‘object matters’, or what the stakes are in choosing place as a focus over other spatializing categories. And so I begin by recounting a few nonexclusive qualities of an everyday sense of places, which I give more theoretical weight and conceptual precision as this chapter goes on.
