Johnathan Lamb is another author we read who talks about the power of objects and their character. "The Implicability of Things" Lamb presents a 'modern' interpretation of what we consider to be valueable as objects: Money. While money has always been valuable, and a means of trade and purchase, through a lense of the "It narrative" definition as explained by Sara Ahmed, it is a means of circulation of value that makes others happy or affects them positively, and circulate them for the social good. As time goes on, as our modern world develops, we place more and more importance on objects, and their affect on us, such as AI, something that can not feel or be characterized, gen z has already given character to several AI models, highlighting their value in their daily lives.
"Some of the best recent books about things, such as John Plotz’s Portable Property (2008) and Elaine Freedgood’s Ideas in Things (2006), deal with artefacts, commodities and curiosities that find their value and significance by means of circulation, moving from place to place and hand to hand."
Lamb also presents another interpretation of what others consider to be "It Narratives" and explains why that can't be so in the case of slavery, "In the slave narratives that followed it-narratives, many of the humiliations befalling things in the hands of humans (see, for example, The Life and Perambulations of a Mouse (1784)) are endured again by humans who have been transformed into property. These are not worlds where goods and owners see their sociability reflected in each other’s freedom of movement." The idea that slaves can be considered objects is broken down by Lamb's definition of "It Narritives", as they don't have freedom to circulate and mutual sociability. Additonally my interpretation of Lamb's point is that that people who are characterizing slaves as objects are overlooking that they are characterized as humans, not property. This connects to the passage on the right, from Raoul Peck's documentary. The false concept or narrative that there is superiority over another race does not automatically classify another race as objects, just because of perceived inferiority
