Estrangement and Thing Theory. Objecthood as an Antilogic of Dissent

The practice of estrangement retains an essential political function. It is possible to link this narrative formula to the investigative paths typical of Thing Theory: in this way the perspective guaranteed by the matter can shed light upon the ideological coordinates of capitalist logic, through an inter-pretation of the commodity in a dissident key according to the suggestion of-fered by Francesco Orlando in his Freudian theory of literature. This article, therefore, aims to document the relationship between Šklovskij’s intuition, Thing Theory, and Orlando’s proposal through a close reading of Solid Ob-jects, a short story by Virginia Woolf.