Wild Things: The Material Culture of Everyday Life Attfield Judy
Wild Things: The Material Culture of Everyday Life Attfield Judy What do things mean? Has the quest for 'the real thing' become so important because the high-tech world of total virtuality threatens…
Specifikacia Wild Things: The Material Culture of Everyday Life Attfield Judy
Wild Things: The Material Culture of Everyday Life Attfield Judy
What do things mean? 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. What does the life of everyday objects reveal about people and their material worlds?
Thereafter they are transformed and invested with new meanings and associations that reflect and assert who we are. The act of consumption is only the starting point of object's "lives". 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
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