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Carregando... Where Stuff Comes From: How Toasters, Toilets, Cars, Computers and Many Other Things Come To Be As They Are (edição: 2003)de Harvey Molotch
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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 the meaning of the stuff in our lives and what that stuff says about us. Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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different and more interesting.
It's essentially a meditation on the role of design in the construction of modern artifacts, covering things like how design makes them better (or worse), how design (and the existence of products in general) is constrained by historical circumstance and contingencies, and how design can be harnessed to improve the world (for example, while people are always going to want to show status, you can channel that into status being represented by smaller, more eco-friendly, more carefully crafted objects rather than the common equating of higher status with larger objects).
What makes it especially pleasant is that, while not dry, it's written as a scientific work, not a polemic. He describes the way the world is, but doesn't then rant about how politics, economics or whatever has caused it to be this way, and he gives frequent examples to show just how simple-minded the usual ideological viewpoints are compared with reality. ( )