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Title The silent life of things : reading and representing commodified objecthood / edited by Daniela Rogobete, Jonathan P.A. Sell and Alan Munton
Published Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2015
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Summary 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 mani
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed December 21, 2015)
Subject Material culture.
Materialism.
material culture (discipline)
materialism (philosophical movement)
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture.
Material culture
Materialism
Form Electronic book
Author Rogobete, Daniela, editor.
Sell, Jonathan P. A., editor.
Munton, Alan, 1945- editor.
ISBN 9781443886680
1443886688