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a critical introduction to the culture of objects
Theorizing things: disciplinary diversity in thinking about objects -- Valued possessions: the worth of things -- Making things: labor in production -- Producing things: a history of systems of manufacture -- Beautiful things: the aesthetics of surfaces -- The greed imperative: user needs in product design -- Planned obsolescence: unsustainable consumption -- Objects as signs: what do things mean? -- The obsession of possession: fetish objects.
Includes bibliographical references and index.