THE MATERIAL PRACTICES OF GLAMOUR

Abstract

So why are people attracted to goods? I want to open up a new dimension to this debate by understanding goods as surfaces which are both active and inert. I will do this by considering the history of the material practices of what I will call glamour. Through the manipulation of surfaces, glamour casts a secular spell – often only very briefly – but the moment of traction is, I argue, a real one which needs to be taken into accounts of cultural economy if we are to make sense of modern consumption.

Cite this work

No public copy is stored for this record, so only the metadata is cited.

Stored only when both papers are in the corpus — 97 citations exist upstream.

Papers that cite the same references — the relational fallback while embeddings are still backfilling.