Wild Things

The Material Culture of Everyday Life

AvJudy Attfield

Häftad, Engelska, 2020

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Beskrivning

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.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2020-09-17
Mått:156 x 234 x 20 mm
Vikt:440 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Radical Thinkers in Design
Antal sidor:264
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN:9781350070714

Utforska kategorier

Kulturvetenskap inom Samhälle och politik
Antropologi inom Samhälle och politik
Produktdesign inom Kultur

Mer om författaren

Judy Attfield was Senior Lecturer in History and Design at the University of Southampton, UK. A pioneer of the field of material culture studies, she was a member of the editorial board of the journal 'Home Cultures'.

Recensioner i media

Wild Things is particularly relevant to ongoing discussions of the politics of things. This is because of both Attfield’s choice to focus on voices hitherto unheard from – working class, domestic, female voices – and her effort to situate identity construction – in particular gender and sexual identity – within the her subjects’ choices to buy, use, and accrue things.

Innehållsförteckning

List of illustrationsPreface to the original editionPreface to the current edition by Claudia MarinaIntroduction: The material culture of everyday lifePart I: Things1. The meaning of design: Things with attitude2. The meaning of things: Design in the lower case3. Things and the dynamics of social changePart II: Themes4. Continuity: Authenticity and the paradoxical nature of reproduction5. Change: The ephemeral materiality of identity6. Containment: The ecology of personal possessionsPart III: Contexts7. Space: Where things take place8. Time: bringing things to life9. The body: The threshold between nature and cultureConclusionAfterword by Jo TurneyBibliographyIndex