// Glossary
Consumer Society
3 topics
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About the Moment When Everyday Items Turn Into Emergency Food
Society premised on mass production and mass consumption. Tendency for the value of things to lean toward exchange value or symbolic value rather than use value.
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The Difference Between Repairing Broken Things and Buying New Ones
A social structure where objects are easily bought and easily discarded. The culture of repair functions as resistance to this structure.
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Does Making Something with Your Own Hands Change Anything?
A social structure characterized by mass production and mass consumption. Making by hand can function as resistance or an alternative to this structure.