The Argument about Things in the 1980s : Goods and Garbage in an Age of Neoliberalism /

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 f...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Jelfs, Tim (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2018
Edition:First edition.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
American fiction > History and criticism.
Material culture > United States > History > 20th century.
Consumption (Economics) > United States > History > 20th century.
United States > Civilization > 1970-
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 1. The triumph of neoliberalism
  • 2. After the great transformation
  • 3. Rhopography and realism
  • 4. Matter unmoored
  • 5. At peace with things?
  • 6. All that fall.

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