This new understanding of mannequins, of inanimate human forms more generally, confirms a need to attend to our own obsessions with, devotion to, and desire for things.
As an environmentalist, Velez-Mitchell pushes the boundaries, to near obsession, with her devotion to improving the environment by educating the masses and practicing what she preaches.
When does devotion become obsession?
Four decades after his death, the man known to millions simply as the King, continues to inspire devotion and obsession and the ability to trigger no small controversy.
3 p.m. 7) BIGGER THAN MUSIC Perhaps the only rival to Liverpool's music obsession is its utter devotion to soccer.
All the lyrics have something to do with love, as Mr. Escovedo sings and shouts, in his thick, earthy voice, about lust, devotion, jealousy, obsession, parental affection and higher purpose.
Other games may be able to inspire similar levels of devotion and obsession from their fans, but they do so very much as computer games, wrapped up in all the cultural tropes and associations that still come with being part of medium shared by World of Warcraft, Call of Duty and their kin.
And he means everything: not just our corporeal selves, but our devotions, obsessions, sacred oaths.
Is otherwise known for: His obsession about U.F.O.'s and devotion to "The X-Files".
