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Designing things a critical introduction to the culture of objects
Author
Title
Designing things [electronic resource] : a critical introduction to the culture of objects / Prasad Boradkar.
ISBN
9781350036116 (electronic bk.)
1350036110 (electronic bk.)
9781845204273
1845204271
9781845204266
1845204263
Edition
English ed.
Published
Oxford, UK ; New York : Berg, 2010.
Physical Description
1 online resource (ix, 326 pages) : illustrations.
Local Notes
Access is available to the Yale community.
Notes
Electronic reproduction. London Available via World Wide Web.
Description based on print version record.
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Access restricted by licensing agreement.
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Original
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
February 10, 2021
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
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.
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