The Hidden Lives of Domestic Things: Accumulations in Cupboards, Lofts, and Shelves
The Hidden Lives of Domestic Things: Accumulations in Cupboards, Lofts, and Shelves
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家居用品的隐藏生活：橱柜、阁楼和架子中的堆积
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2015
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S. Woodward
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本章试图挑战这样一种假设，即在家庭空间中积累目前不使用的东西是“一次性社会”的标志（库珀，2010），或者是轻浮的消费者对新事物不断渴望的产物。这一假设要求人们主要从使用价值的角度来思考事物，而且消费是个人选择和偏好的结果。在当前媒体对杂乱的迷恋中--在第四频道的《隔壁囤积者》等节目中可以看到--堆积在阁楼和橱柜等家庭空间中的东西会蔓延到整个房间，这是一种心理障碍的症状。拥有多余的东西，我们不使用被视为浪费或作为一个人的生活是失控的标志-这是反映在多个专业整理服务的理解。我们需要的是一个焦点，不是这些节目所描绘的极端囤积行为，也不是那些在家里有多余东西时继续购买新东西的个人消费者，而是所谓的“普通消费”（Gronow和Warde，2001年）。也就是说，在家里使用和储存物品的日常模式并不壮观，而是人们如何通过物品来实现他们的日常生活和关系。
This chapter seeks to challenge the assumption that the accumulation of things that are not currently in use in domestic spaces is a sign of the ‘throwaway society’ (Cooper, 2010), or a product of frivolous consumers’ constant desire for the new. This assumption entails thinking about things predominantly in terms of use-value and also that consumption is a result of individuals’ choices and preferences. In the current media fascination with clutter — seen in programmes such as Channel 4’s The Hoarder Next Door — things that accumulate in domestic spaces, such as attics and cupboards, spill into whole rooms as a symptom of a psychological disorder. Having an excess of stuff that we do not use is seen as either wasteful or as a sign of an individual with a life that is out of control — an understanding that is mirrored in the multiple professional decluttering services. What is needed is a focus, not upon the extreme behaviour of hoarding that these programmes portray, nor individual consumers who continue to buy new stuff when they have an excess of things at home, but on what has been termed ‘ordinary consumption’ (Gronow and Warde, 2001). That is, the everyday patterns of use and storage of things within the home that is not spectacular but rather how people enact their everyday lives and relationships through things.