ENGLISH

Where Stuff Comes from: How Toasters, Toilets, Cars, Computers, and Many Other Things Come to Be as They Are

By Harvey Molotch

Book information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
2003
ISBN
0415944007, 9780415944007, 0415950422, 9780415950428, 0203011635, 9780203011638
LCC
TA148.M65 2003
Google Books ID
YVKSAgAAQBAJ
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
10 MB (10681671 bytes)
Edition
1st
Pages
328\328
Topic
Computers
Library
www.knigka.info
Orientation
yes
Scanned
no
Time added
2010-02-18 13:16:04

Description

Molotch takes us on a fascinating exploration into the worlds of technology, design, corporate and popular culture. We now see how corporations, designers, retailers, advertisers, and other middle-men influence what a thing can be and how it is made. We see the way goods link into ordinary life as well as vast systems of consumption, economic and political operation. The book is a meditation into the meaning of the stuff in our lives and what that stuff says about us.

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