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Record Nr.

UNINA9910784048403321

Autore

Molotch Harvey Luskin

Titolo

Where stuff comes from : how toasters, toilets, cars, computers, and many others things come to be as they are / / Harvey Molotch

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Routledge, , 2003

ISBN

1-135-94634-5

1-135-94635-3

1-280-06457-9

9786610064571

0-203-01163-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (328 p.)

Disciplina

306.46

620

Soggetti

Engineering

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 287-304) and index.

Nota di contenuto

BOOK COVER; HALF-TITLE; TITLE; COPYRIGHT; DEDICATION; CONTENTS; PREFACE; CHAPTER 1 Lash-Ups: Goods and bads; CHAPTER 2 Inside Stuff: How Professionals Do It; CHAPTER 3 Form and Function; CHAPTER 4 Changing Goods; CHAPTER 5 Venues and Middlemen; CHAPTER 6 Place in Product; CHAPTER 7 Corporate Organization and the Design Big Thing; CHAPTER 8 Moral Rules; NOTES; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX

Sommario/riassunto

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.