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Table of contents (11 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Introduction
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Prelude
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Media and the Digital Age
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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"Is planned obsolescence a conceptual paradox? How do we reconcile our era's impatience for the outmoded with our equally strong attachment to fantasies of endurance, be they about things or people? What is the place of the human in an age of obsolescence? This volume addresses these pressing questions and more. Each essay in this collection is a gem, and collectively they do the important work of expanding the conversation about the question of obsolescence beyond the realm of the technological to those of art, culture, environment, and politics" - Anne Anlin Cheng, Professor, English and the Center for African American Studies, Princeton University, USA
"This fascinating collection rethinks the meaning of obsolescence, from its historical relation to consumer capitalism and environmental blight to the ambivalent sentiments toward progress, tradition, fashion, and decay that inform its meanings in contemporary art, media, and material culture. A must-read for anyone interested in the intertwined itineraries of humans and things." - Lynn Spigel, Professor, Screen Cultures, Northwestern University, USA and author of Make Room for TV: Television and the Family Ideal in Postwar America
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Cultures of Obsolescence
Book Subtitle: History, Materiality, and the Digital Age
Editors: Babette B. Tischleder, Sarah Wasserman
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137463647
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York
eBook Packages: Palgrave Media & Culture Collection, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: Babette B. Tischleder and Sarah Wasserman 2015
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-47089-8Published: 28 May 2015
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-46364-7Published: 03 June 2015
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 238
Number of Illustrations: 11 b/w illustrations
Topics: Regional and Cultural Studies, Sociology of Culture, Cultural History, Cultural Anthropology, Media Studies, Cultural Studies