Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: The Popular Life of Things -- PART I: Theorizing the Popular and the Material -- 1 Culture: The 'Popular' and the 'Material' -- 2 Cultural Materialisms and Popu…
This book critically approaches contemporary meanings of materiality and discuses ways in which we understand, experience, and engage with objects through popular culture in our private, social and professional lives. Appropriating Arjun Appadurai's famous phrase: "the social li…
Pt. I. Theorizing the popular and the material -- pt. II. From material media to digital materiality -- pt. III. The agency of things and the negotiation of meaning -- pt. IV. Popular narratives and material culture -- pt. V. Material culture and the creative self.
This book critically approaches contemporary meanings of materiality and discuses ways in which we understand, experience, and engage with objects through popular culture in our private, social and professional lives. Appropriating Arjun Appadurai's famous phrase: "the social li…