03082nam 2200661 450 991078651050332120230803204300.00-8047-9299-210.1515/9780804792998(CKB)3710000000221861(SSID)ssj0001292736(PQKBManifestationID)12570526(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001292736(PQKBWorkID)11285452(PQKB)11680383(StDuBDS)EDZ0001132223(MiAaPQ)EBC1770087(DE-B1597)564062(DE-B1597)9780804792998(Au-PeEL)EBL1770087(CaPaEBR)ebr10907691(OCoLC)923709279(OCoLC)1198929861(EXLCZ)99371000000022186120140822h20142014 uy 0engur|||||||||||txtccrThe practice of misuse rugged consumerism in contemporary American culture /Raymond MalewitzStanford, California :Stanford University Press,2014.©20141 online resourceBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph0-8047-9196-1 Includes bibliographical references and index.Front matter --Contents --Acknowledgments --1. Misuse: From Aesthetics to Practice --2. Theaters of Rugged Consumerism --3. The Garden in the Machine: Biomimetic Hybrids and the Tragedy of Singular Use --4. The Rugged Consumer Bildungsroman --5. Ritual, Play, and Neoliberal Rugged Consumerism --6. The Commodity at the End of the World --Notes --Bibliography --IndexThis title examines the oppositional emergence and eventual ideological containment of 'rugged consumers' in late 20th century American literature, who creatively misuse, reuse, and repurpose the objects within their environments to suit their idiosyncratic needs and desires. The book shows how certain authors position their rugged consumers within the intertwined American myths of primal nature and rugged individualism, creating left- and right-libertarian maker communities that are skeptical of both traditional political institutions and (in its pre-neoliberal state) globalised corporate capitalism.American literature20th centuryHistory and criticismConsumption (Economics) in literatureMaterial culture in literatureConsumption (Economics)United StatesMaterial cultureUnited StatesAmerican literatureHistory and criticism.Consumption (Economics) in literature.Material culture in literature.Consumption (Economics)Material culture810.9/3553Malewitz Raymond1559398MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910786510503321The practice of misuse3824451UNINA