Materiality and Popular Culture The Popular Life of Things [Hardcover]

This book critically approaches contemporary meanings of materiality and discuses ways in which we understand, experience, and engage with objects through popular culture in our private, social and professional lives. Appropriating Arjun Appadurais famous phrase: the social life of things , with which he inspired scholars to take material culture more seriously and, as a result, treat it as an important and revealing area of cultural studies, the book explores the relationship between material culture and popular practices, and points to the impact they have exerted on our co-existence with material worlds in the conditions of late modernity.

Introduction: The Popular Life of Things

[Anna Malinowska and Karolina Lebek]

1. Culture: The Popular and the Material

[John Storey]

2. Cultural Materialisms and Popular Processes of Late Modernity

[Anna Malinowska]

3. The Secret Life of Things: Speculative Realism and the Autonomous Object

[Grzegorz Czemiel]

4. The Representation of Book Culture in ItNarratives

[Joanna Maciulewicz]

5. The Intimacy of Writing  Lost in a Digital Age?

[Mayannah N. Dahlheim]

6. Popular Digital Imaging: Photoshop as Middlebroware

[Fr?d?rik Lesage]

7. When You Are Not What You Do Not Have: Some Remarks on Digital Inheritance

[Marcin Sarnek]

8. I See Faces: Popular Pareidolia and the Proliferation of Meaning

[Joanne Lee]

9. From Piss-Communication to GraffARTi: Hegemony, Popular Culture and the Bastard Art