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The practice of misuse : rugged consumerism in contemporary American culture / Raymond Malewitz.
LIBRA PS228.C65 M35 2014
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Malewitz, Raymond, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American literature--20th century--History and criticism.
- American literature.
- Consumption (Economics) in literature.
- Material culture in literature.
- Consumption (Economics)--United States.
- Consumption (Economics).
- United States.
- Material culture--United States.
- Material culture.
- Genre:
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Physical Description:
- 227 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, 2014.
- Summary:
- In The Age of Ikea Hackers And Salvagepunks, This Book Charts the emergence of "rugged consumers" who creatively misuse, reuse, and repurpose the objects within their environments to suit their idiosyncratic needs and desires. Figures of both literary and material culture whose behavior evokes an American can-do ethic, rugged consumption-driven realities of our passive, postindustrial economy. Through their unorthodox encounters with the material world, they show that using objects "properly" is a conventional behavior that must be renewed and reinforced rather a naturalized process that persists untroubled through time and space. At the same time, this utopian ideal is rarely met: most examples of rugged consumerism conceal rather than foreground the ideological problems to which they respond and thus support or ignore rather than challenge the structures of late capitalist consumerism. By analyzing convergences and divergences between subjective mater practices and collectivist politics, Raymond Malewitz shows how rugged consumerism both recodes and reflects the dynamic social history of objects in the United States from the 1960 to the present. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- Misuse : from aesthetics to practice
- Theaters of rugged consumerism
- The garden in the machine : biomimetic hybrids and the tragedy of singular use
- The rugged consumer Bildungsroman
- Ritual, play, and neoliberal rugged consumerism
- The commodity at the end of the world.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780804791960
- 0804791961
- OCLC:
- 872562208
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