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The Argument about Things in the 1980s: Goods and Garbage in an Age of Neoliberalism
West Virginia University Press, 2018 Cloth: 978-1-946684-23-3 | Paper: 978-1-946684-24-0 | eISBN: 978-1-946684-25-7 Library of Congress Classification E169.12.J45 2018 Dewey Decimal Classification 973.927
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ABOUT THIS BOOK
In the late 1970s, a Jeff Koons art exhibit featured mounted vacuum cleaners lit by fluorescent tube lighting and identified by their product names: New Hoover Quik Broom, New Hoover Celebrity IV. Raymond Carver published short stories such as “Are These Actual Miles?” that cataloged the furniture, portable air conditioners, and children’s bicycles in a family home. Some years later the garbage barge Mobro 4000 turned into an international scandal as it spent months at sea, unable to dump its trash as it was refused by port after port. Tim Jelfs’s The Argument about Things in the 1980s considers all this and more in a broad study of the literature and culture of the “long 1980s.” It contributes to of-the-moment scholarly debate about material culture, high finance, and ecological degradation, shedding new light on the complex relationship between neoliberalism and cultural life. See other books on: 1980s | Garbage | Goods | Neoliberalism | Nineteen eighties See other titles from West Virginia University Press |
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The Argument about Things in the 1980s: Goods and Garbage in an Age of Neoliberalism
ABOUT THIS BOOK | AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY | REVIEWS | TOC
West Virginia University Press, 2018
Cloth: 978-1-946684-23-3
Paper: 978-1-946684-24-0
eISBN: 978-1-946684-25-7
Cloth: 978-1-946684-23-3
Paper: 978-1-946684-24-0
eISBN: 978-1-946684-25-7
In the late 1970s, a Jeff Koons art exhibit featured mounted vacuum cleaners lit by fluorescent tube lighting and identified by their product names: New Hoover Quik Broom, New Hoover Celebrity IV. Raymond Carver published short stories such as “Are These Actual Miles?” that cataloged the furniture, portable air conditioners, and children’s bicycles in a family home. Some years later the garbage barge Mobro 4000 turned into an international scandal as it spent months at sea, unable to dump its trash as it was refused by port after port.
Tim Jelfs’s The Argument about Things in the 1980s considers all this and more in a broad study of the literature and culture of the “long 1980s.” It contributes to of-the-moment scholarly debate about material culture, high finance, and ecological degradation, shedding new light on the complex relationship between neoliberalism and cultural life.
Tim Jelfs’s The Argument about Things in the 1980s considers all this and more in a broad study of the literature and culture of the “long 1980s.” It contributes to of-the-moment scholarly debate about material culture, high finance, and ecological degradation, shedding new light on the complex relationship between neoliberalism and cultural life.
ABOUT THIS BOOK | AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY | REVIEWS | TOC
