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archive • random • eidetic • TNC • surprise!We can no longer pretend there is a proper place and a proper occasion for politics. Robert Sobukwe
In other words, we have this cliché that commodities and emotions are opposed: emotions are spiritual and inward and commodities are materialistic and outwards. I think one of the conclusions of Consuming is that you really cannot draw this dichotomy and distinction because commodities not only help people express their feelings, they actually create feelings.
Eva Illouz, via Guernica
