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Presentation given by Preston Cluster DD101 Tutors on TMA02 (2014)
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DD101 – TMA02 (2014)
TMA Question:Outline the argument that ‘rubbish is not worthless’
Gail Crowther, Tim Davies, Craig Hammond (DD101 Preston Cluster)
Considering the Question …
• Looking at … Zygmunt Bauman’s analysis of contemporary ‘consumer society’ – As opposed to ‘production-based’ social
organisation
Social Class(Production)
Consuming – rubbish …
• Bauman argues that contemporary society is organised around the principles of consumption, rather than ‘production’.
• ‘Freedoms’ in a consumer society, tend to understood as:
– “the freedom to choose how to satisfy individual desires” (via the medium of the consumer market)
• As a consequence, individual ‘freedom’ has become privatised and commodified – a development which in turn fuel’s increasing consumption
• Identity itself becomes based on the process and products of consumption
What defines who ‘we’ are?
SeducedRepressed
• Zygmunt Bauman
Thorstein Veblen: Conspicuous Consumption
Thompson’s ‘Rubbish Theory’
Thompson’s ‘Rubbish Theory’
Thompson’s ‘Rubbish Theory’
• Any examples of artefacts making the transition from the ‘transient’ category
• Through the ‘rubbish’ category• To arrive at the ‘re-valued’ (durable) category?