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Stuff Theory: Everyday Objects, Radical Materialism
Professor Maurizia Boscagli
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Description for Stuff Theory: Everyday Objects, Radical Materialism
Hardback. A groundbreaking theory of materialism which reconsiders the role of stuff, the small objects that clutter our lives, as they crowd the pages of modern literature. Num Pages: 288 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: DSA; HPJ; JFCD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 148 x 218 x 22. Weight in Grams: 512.
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. Stuff is modern materiality out of bounds that refuses to be contained by the western semiotic system. It declines its role as the eternal sidekick of the subject, and is thus the ideal basis for a counter-narrative of materiality in flux. Can such a narrative, developed by the new materialism, reinvigorate the classical materialist account of human alienation from commodities under capital? By ... Read more
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. Stuff is modern materiality out of bounds that refuses to be contained by the western semiotic system. It declines its role as the eternal sidekick of the subject, and is thus the ideal basis for a counter-narrative of materiality in flux. Can such a narrative, developed by the new materialism, reinvigorate the classical materialist account of human alienation from commodities under capital? By ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9781623562687
SKU
V9781623562687
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About Professor Maurizia Boscagli
Maurizia Boscagli is Associate Professor of English, Comparative Literature, and Feminist Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara, USA. She is co-director of COMMA, the Center on Modern Literature, Materialism, and Aesthetics. Her first book was Eye on the Flesh: Fashions of Masculinity in the Early Twentieth Century. She is the translator of Antonio Negri's key work Insurgencies. In ... Read more
Reviews for Stuff Theory: Everyday Objects, Radical Materialism
Boscagli’s readings of objects are genuinely exciting ... For anyone interested in consumer capitalism, mediation, the cultural transition from modernity to postmodernity, or objects in art, however, Stuff Theory is a necessary read. Boscagli’s writing throughout has verve, and the analyses are sharp, incisive, and often surprising.
U.S. Studies Online
The hinge between [modernist and new materialism] is ... Read more
U.S. Studies Online
The hinge between [modernist and new materialism] is ... Read more