Designing things : a critical introduction to the culture of objects / Prasad Boradkar.
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TextPublication details: New York : Berg, 2010.Edition: English edDescription: vii, 326 p. : illus. ; 24 cmISBN: - 9781845204266 (cloth)
- 9781845204273 (pbk.)
- 745.401 22
- NK 1505 B67 2010
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Designing Things provides the reader with a map of the rapidly changing field of design studies, a subject which now draws on a diverse range of theories and methodologies - from philosophy and visual culture, to anthropology and material culture, to media and cultural studies.
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