| Description |
1 online resource |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Misuse : from aesthetics to practice -- Theaters of rugged consumerism -- The garden in the machine : biomimetic hybrids and the tragedy of singular use -- The rugged consumer Bildungsroman -- Ritual, play, and neoliberal rugged consumerism -- The commodity at the end of the world. |
| Summary |
In the age of Ikea Hackers and salvagepunks, this book charts the emergence of ""rugged consumers"" who creatively misuse, reuse, and repurpose the objects within their environments to suit their idiosyncratic needs and desires. Figures of both literary and material culture whose behavior evokes an American can-do ethic, rugged consumers mediate between older mythic models of self-sufficiency and the consumption-driven realities of our passive, post-industrial economy. Through their unorthodox encounters with the material world, rugged consumers show that using objects 'properly' is a conventi. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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American literature. |
| Chronological Term |
20th century |
| Subject |
Consumption (Economics) in literature.
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Consumption (Economics) in literature. |
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Material culture in literature.
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Material culture in literature. |
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Consumption (Economics) -- United States.
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Consumption (Economics) |
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United States. |
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Material culture -- United States.
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Material culture. |
| Chronological Term |
1900 - 1999 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Malewitz, Raymond, author. Practice of misuse 9780804791960 (DLC) 2014008593 (OCoLC)872562208 |
| ISBN |
9780804792998 (electronic book) |
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0804792992 (electronic book) |
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9780804791960 |
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0804791961 |
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