The Human Urge to Collect Little Objects
"It turns your possessions into a feature, a display, in the way that we might use art or photographs to add personality to a space. The style of display is undoubtedly Instagram-centric, with colour-coordination and white space between objects helping everything to pop nicely on a screen, encouraging us to show them off to others."
Alana Hope Levinson • Tidycore Makes a Real Mess
A shared space not for expanding or building taller, but for filling with objects of memories and values. To strangers it might just look like a jumble of junk. To the friends involved, it is an ever growing shrine of a communal history.
shared space | Are.na
In his book The Life of Things, the Love of Things, Italian philosopher Remo Bodei traces the role of objects in society over time. “It is evident that the value of the use and exchange of objects today has partially given way to their transformation into simulacra or their exhibition as mere status symbols,” he says. What separates an object from ... See more
Kyle Chayka • 10 Lessons for Crypto Media: Dirt’s Year in Review
to save, to add to our collection, the action both etches it a little deeper into our hearts and creates a context around the artifact itself, whether text, song, image, or video. The context is not just for ourselves but for other people, the knit-together, shared context of culture at large. That’s what Benjamin described when he wrote, “The phen
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