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Genre/Form: | Electronic books History |
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Additional Physical Format: | Print version: Shell, Hanna Rose. Shoddy. Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2020 (DLC) 2020001639 (OCoLC)1117642904 |
Material Type: | Document, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Internet Resource, Computer File |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Hanna Rose Shell |
ISBN: | 9780226698229 022669822X |
OCLC Number: | 1191070112 |
Description: | 1 online resource (236 pages) : illustrations (some color), maps. |
Contents: | Prologue : Finding shoddy. Old clothes odyssey ; The heap -- Devil's dust. Emergence of an industry ; Narratives of transmutation, myths of invention ; Devil's dust politics ; Material philosophy and the shredded self ; Shoddy as paradox and Marx's "excrements of consumption" -- Textile skin. The Wear of war ; Textile skin and "the sinews of war" ; Shoddy and the body politic ; Photography and the "harvest of death" ; On shrouds and shoddy -- Lively things. Miasma and contagion ; Consolidation of clothes and corpses ; Disinfection and its discontents ; The intimate materiality of the unknowable ; Liveliness and formlessness -- Epilogue : Shoddy renaissance. |
Series Title: | science.culture |
Responsibility: | Hanna Rose Shell. |
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"Shoddy is that rare book that takes you from the direct experiences you share with the author (what to do with your used clothes? the feeling of 'doing good' when you donate them to clothe someone 'less fortunate') to the larger social, economic, historical, and yes, moral universe in which those experiences live. Shell brings gives us this kind of journey by searching for shoddy. Through her we learn about the human costs of the industrial revolution, learn about British Chartism, the economic realities of the American Civil War, learn about the ideas that animated dissent--Carlyle, Disraeli, and Marx, just for a start, and so much more, all through the eyes of shoddy. It is an exemplary book in its use of the visual record to weave a narrative that implicates current practice, not just in how we do scholarship across a range of fields in media and science and technology studies, but how we think about ourselves. Shoddy is a book that will change your mind." --Sherry Turkle, author of Reclaiming Conversation: The Power of Talk in a Digital Age Read more...


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- Wool fabrics -- History -- 19th century.
- Textile industry -- History -- 19th century.
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- Textile industry -- England -- History.
- Textile industry -- United States -- History.
- Used clothing industry -- History.
- Recycled products.
- Textile industry.
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- England.
- United States.