ABSTRACT

Any residential home experience is an experience of both space and domestic appliances. There is no doubt that the author's personal experience using the machines is all contemporary, and even universally relevant in the contemporary world. These machines are reshaping our life, and therefore are reshaping the world's history; as such they find their way into every part of the globe, transcending any ideological boundaries. The author prefers to record the time in which he lives through the lens of his own residential experience and his experience of using domestic appliances. Machines are necessarily subjected to a journey from birth to death, but isn't it a historical journey of things? Isn't it true that every moment of this journey is a vertical moment? Doesn't it have spots of depth? Perhaps we need new forms of biographies, not biographies of human beings, nor of ideas, but biographies of things, things with their births and deaths.