| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 199 pages) |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Summary |
"In the late 1970s, a Jeff Koons art exhibit featured mounted vacuum cleaners lit by fluorescent tube lighting and identified by their product names: New Hoover Quik Broom, New Hoover Celebrity IV. Raymond Carver published short stories such as "Are These Actual Miles?" that cataloged the furniture, portable air conditioners, and children's bicycles in a family home. Some years later the garbage barge Mobro 4000 turned into an international scandal as it spent months at sea, unable to dump its trash as it was refused by port after port. Tim Jelfs's The Argument about Things in the 1980s considers all this and more in a broad study of the literature and culture of the "long 1980s." It contributes to of-the-moment scholarly debate about material culture, high finance, and ecological degradation, shedding new light on the complex relationship between neoliberalism and cultural life"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
The triumph of neoliberalism -- After the great transformation -- Rhopography and realism -- Matter unmoored -- At peace with things? -- All that fall. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
United States -- Civilization -- 20th century.
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United States. |
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Civilization. |
| Chronological Term |
20th century |
| Subject |
Nineteen eighties.
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Nineteen eighties. |
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Culture -- 20th century.
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Culture. |
| Chronological Term |
1900-1999 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Jelfs, Tim, author. Argument about things in the 1980s 9781946684233 (DLC) 2018000760 (OCoLC)1005104590 |
| ISBN |
9781946684264 (electronic book) |
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1946684260 (electronic book) |
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9781946684233 |
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1946684236 |
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9781946684240 |
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1946684244 |
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9781946684257 (ePUB) |
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