ABSTRACT
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 Appadurai’s 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.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|41 pages
Theorizing the Popular and the Material
part II|48 pages
From Material Media to Digital Materiality
part III|51 pages
The Agency of Things and the Negotiation of Meaning
chapter 9|13 pages
From Piss-Communication to GraffARTi
part IV|55 pages
Popular Narratives and Material Culture
part V|49 pages
Material Culture and the Creative Self