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Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Turning toward Things Accumulation, Attachment, and Agency -- ONE: The Dreams Stuff Is Made Of Attaching to Inanimate Objects -- TWO: On Target Aura, Affect, and the Rhetoric of Design...