1st Edition
Where Stuff Comes From How Toasters, Toilets, Cars, Computers and Many Other Things Come To Be As They Are
By Harvey Molotch
Copyright 2003
336 Pages
by
Routledge
336 Pages
by
Routledge
336 Pages
by
Routledge
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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... Read more
Preface. Acknowledgements. 1. Lash-Ups: Goods and Bads 2. Inside Stuff: How Professionals Do It 3. Form and Function 4. Changing Goods 5. Venues and Middlemen 6. Place in Product 7. Corporate Organization and the Design Big Thing 8. Moral Rules: New for Old
Biography
Harvey Molotch
