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Wild Things
- The Material Culture of Everyday Life
Engelsk Paperback
Wild Things
- The Material Culture of Everyday Life
Engelsk Paperback

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What do things mean? What does the life of everyday objects reveal about people and their material worlds? Has the quest for ‘the real thing’ become so important because the high-tech world of total virtuality threatens to engulf us?

This pioneering book bridges design theory and anthropology to offer a new and challenging way of understanding the changing meanings of contemporary human-object relations. The act of consumption is only the starting point of object’s “lives”. Thereafter they are transformed and invested with new meanings and associations that reflect and assert who we are. Defining designed things as “things with attitude” differentiates the highly visible fashionable object from ordinary aretefacts that are too easily taken for granted.

Through case studies ranging from reproduction furniture to fashion and textiles to ‘clutter’, the author traces the connection between objects and authenticity, ephemerality and self-identity. Beyond this, she shows the materiality of the everyday in terms of space, time and the body and suggests a transition with the passing of time from embodiment to disembodiment.

Product detaljer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
264
ISBN-13:
9781350070714
Indbinding:
Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
1350070718
Kategori:
Udg. Dato:
17 sep 2020
Længde:
270mm
Bredde:
234mm
Højde:
156mm
Forlag:
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Oplagsdato:
17 sep 2020
Forfatter(e):
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