Turney, Jo (2020) Afterword. In, Attfield, Judy (ed.) Wild things: The material culture of everyday life. (Volume 4 of Radical Thinkers in Design, 4) Bloomsbury Academic, p. 209.
Abstract
What do things mean? What does the life of everyday objects reveal about people and their material worlds? Has the quest for 'the real thing' become so important because the high-tech world of total virtuality threatens to engulf us?This pioneering book bridges design theory and anthropology to offer a new and challenging way of understanding the changing meanings of contemporary human-object relations. The act of consumption is only the starting point of object's “lives”. Thereafter they are transformed and invested with new meanings and associations that reflect and assert who we are. Defining designed things as “things with attitude” differentiates the highly visible fashionable object from ordinary aretefacts that are too easily taken for granted.
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