Das Ding: Object Aesthetics in Lebanese Literature. Abstract The Arab Spring in Lebanon was accompanied by a wave of cultural and aesthetic innovation manifest in new literary forms. Comic books, graphic novels, and children’s books documented the collapse not only of traditional political structures, but also the rise of a new literary aesthetic intent on capturing the individual’s alienation from existing political and social structures. The works of authors like Ahmed Naji and Hilal Chouman, representing a new trend in Lebanese literature, broke with the old paradigms of modern Arabic literature. In this paper I analyze the literary aesthetic of objects in the Arab Spring literature. Using Martin Heidegger’s logical analysis of “The thing”, I argue that the new, revolutionary aesthetics of Lebanese cultural production in reflect a collapse of the logic of “The Thing” both as an essential part of the individuals material relationship with his surroundings, and his understanding of works of art. The new aesthetic of Lebanese literature is apparent in the transformation of the object as a signifier of distinct social structure into one that pointed towards absence, emptiness, disassociation and confusion. As objects emptied of their meaning through war and social upheaval accumulated in the collective spaces of urban landscapes transformed through conflict, Arab Spring cultural production forged innovative intersections between the textual and the visual through the production of new literary mediums and aesthetics which offered a new paradigm for the individual to understand the signification of objects. A close reading of the recent works of Lebanese authors reveals an attempt to both to draw attention to the transformation of object-signifiers and construct paradigms for “healing” individuals disassociated with the breakdown of the logical system of “The Thing”, by creating works of art which functioned as therapeutic physical objects, meant to re-associate the individual to the new reality of their surroundings.