Quasi-Subject Commodities - Minimalism, Art, and the Social Life of Things
Commodities play an integral role in the creation and maintenance of personas— to such a degree that they begin to take on characteristics of labor, provenance, and politics, such as distressed clothing or fair trade labels. This essay proposes that we have begun to freight our commodities with thei...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Deakin University
2016-05-01
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Series: | Persona Studies |
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Online Access: | https://ojs.deakin.edu.au/index.php/ps/article/view/540 |