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Boscagli, Maurizia.
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Materialism.
Belongings, Personal.
Personal belongings in literature.
Personal belongings in art.
Property.
Property in literature.
Material culture.
Material culture in literature.
Modernism (Aesthetics)
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Boscagli, Maurizia.
Materialism.
Belongings, Personal.
Personal belongings in literature.
Personal belongings in art.
Property.
Property in literature.
Material culture.
Material culture in literature.
Modernism (Aesthetics)
Popular culture.
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Stuff theory : everyday objects, radical materialism / Maurizia Boscagli.
by
Boscagli, Maurizia.
Bloomsbury Academic, 2014.
Call #:
178 B741s
Subjects
Materialism.
Belongings, Personal.
Personal belongings in
literature
.
Personal belongings in art.
Property.
Property in
literature
.
Material
culture
.
Material
culture
in
literature
.
Modernism (Aesthetics)
Popular
culture
.
ISBN:
9781623562250 (pbk.)
Description:
279 pages ; 22 cm.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Introduction: Of Jena Glassware and Potatoes: Matter in the Moment -- 1. Homeopathic Benjamin: A Flexible Poetics of Matter -- 2. For the Unnatural Use of Clothes: Fashion as Cultural Assault -- 3. Paris Circa 1968: Cool Spaces, Decoration, Revolution -- 4. "You Must Remember this:" Memory Objects in the Age of Erasable Memory -- 5. Garbage in Theory: Waste Aesthetics -- Envoi: What Should We Do With Our Stuff.
Summary:
"Stuff, the hoard of minor objects which have shed their commodity glamor but which we refuse to recycle, flashes up in fiction, films and photographs as alluring, unruly reminder of how people and matter are intertwined. By shifting the discussion of materiality toward the aesthetic and the everyday, the book both embraces and challenges the project of new materialism, illustrating the intermittent flashes of modern 'minor' materiality in twentieth-century modernity as fashion, memory object, clutter, home decor, and waste in a wide range of texts: Benjamin's essays, Virginia Woolf's and Elfriede Jelinek's fiction, Rem Koolhaas' criticism, 1920s German photography and the cinema of Tati, Bertolucci, and Mendes. It asserts that in
culture
, stuff becomes a rallying point for a new critique of capital, which always works to reassign stuff to a subaltern position"--Provided by publisher.
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