The Silent Life of Things

The Silent Life of Things
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Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Total Pages : 220
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ISBN-10 : 9781443886680
ISBN-13 : 1443886688
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Book Synopsis The Silent Life of Things by : Alan Munton

Download or read book The Silent Life of Things written by Alan Munton and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2015-11-25 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ever-growing interest in the analysis of materiality has found its expression in many studies of objects and objecthood, of things and “thingness”. Combining cultural, phenomenological, semiotic, and philosophical approaches, this collection of eleven essays proposes a journey into “the silent life of things”, into those aspects of materiality that are not immediately visible and require both increased attention and a sense of intuition. It focuses on the subtle changes that materiality operates upon our subjectivity and upon our status as producers, users, possessors, negotiators and manipulators of objects, and analyses the ways in which materiality is constantly redefined by consumerism and the strategies it adopts in order to resist commodification. In the process, the collection explores different ways of deciphering what materiality, in its reliable concreteness or its “magical materialism”, tries to tell us: all the silent stories that “things” accumulate while circulating among people, societies and cultures; the narratives they weave when amassed, collected, archived or transformed into cultural commodities; the secrets they reveal when witnessing the gradual commodification of their owners – of their bodies, lives and souls. The Silent Life of Things: Representing and Reading Commodified Objecthood establishes a new paradigm for reading and interpreting commodified materiality, and its participation in the establishment of a new aesthetics of consumerism.


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