Bibliograph

Where stuff comes from, how toasters, toilets, cars, computers, and many other things come to be as they are, Harvey Molotch

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Where stuff comes from, how toasters, toilets, cars, computers, and many other things come to be as they are, Harvey Molotch

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (p. 287-304) and index

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Where stuff comes from

Medium

electronic resource

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bibliographydictionaries

Responsibility statement

Harvey Molotch

Sub title

how toasters, toilets, cars, computers, and many other things come to be as they are

Summary

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., 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

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