Wild Things: The Material Culture of Everyday Life
What do things mean? What does the life of everyday objects after the check-out 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 in objects' 'lives'. Thereafter they are transformed and invested with new meanings that reflect and assert who we are. Defining design as 'things with attitude' differenti…
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Weitere Autoren: Miller, Daniel (Hrsg.) / Gilroy, Paul (Hrsg.)
- ISBN: 978-1-85973-369-1
- EAN: 9781859733691
- Produktnummer: 33593208
- Verlag: Bloomsbury 3PL
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2000
- Seitenangabe: 336 S.
- Masse: H23.4 cm x B15.7 cm x D1.7 cm 576 g
- Auflage: First
- Gewicht: 576
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Judith Attfield is Senior Lecturer in History and Design at the Winchester School of Art, University of Southampton.
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