Where Stuff Comes From

Download or read book Where Stuff Comes From written by Harvey Molotch and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-11-23 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.