Molotch takes us on a fascinating exploration into the worlds of technology, design, corporate and popular culture.
We see how corporations, designers, retailers, advertisers, and other middlemen influence what a thing can be and
how it is made. We see the way goods link into ordinary life as well as vast systems of consumption, economic and
political operation. The book is a meditation into the meaning of the stuff in our lives and what that stuff says
about us.
Table of Contents
Preface: Where I Come From
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1 Lash-Ups: Goods and Bads
Chapter 2 Inside Stuff: How Professionals Do It
Chapter 3 Form and Function
Chapter 4 Changing Goods
Chapter 5 Venues and Middlemen
Chapter 6 Place in Product
Chapter 7 Corporate Organization and the Design Big Thing
Chapter 8 Moral Rules
Notes
Bibliography
Index
