Into the Blue Again: Postmillennial Dissolution, Academic Remnants, and Sarah Wasserman’s The Death of Things Rachele Dini Under Review: The Death of Things. By Sarah Wasserman. University of Minnesota Press, October 2020. In early June 2021, the London School of Economics blog published a piece by British sociologist David Beer titled “In Defence of Writing … Continue reading Into the Blue Again: Postmillennial Dissolution, Academic Remnants, and Sarah Wasserman’s The Death of Things
Author: @racheledini1
Rachele Dini is Senior Lecturer in English and American Literature at the University of Roehampton. Her work lies at the intersection of waste studies, domestic space studies, and advertising history. She is the author of Consumerism, Waste, and Re-use in Twentieth-century Fiction: Legacies of the Avant-Garde (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016) and “All-Electric” Narratives: Time-Saving Appliances and Domesticity in American Literature, 1945-2020 (Bloomsbury 2021), the editor of Queer Waste and Feminist Excretions: New Directions in Literary and Cultural Waste Studies (SUNY Press, 2022), and the founder of the International Literary Waste Studies Network. Her current book project, Postmillennial Nostalgia, examines the legacy of mid-century design in contemporary culture. Prior to becoming an academic, she worked for nearly a decade in market research and advertising.
Things of Beauty: The Politics of Postmillennial Nostalgia for Mid-century Design
Things of Beauty: The Politics of Postmillennial Nostalgia for Mid-century Design Rachele Dini A young woman takes stock of her living room, whose shabby furnishings have not been updated in decades. To the tune of Gillian Hills’s 1963 hit, “Tut Tut Tut,” she gambols around a department store furniture display labelled with the helpful description, … Continue reading Things of Beauty: The Politics of Postmillennial Nostalgia for Mid-century Design
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