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What to get and how to get it, how to take care of stuff, and what to get rid of and how-these are vexing everyday matters, with vast if often unseen consequences. Christine Harold's Things Worth Keeping: The Value of Attachment in a Disposable World takes up these issues by analyzing big box stores and offbeat brands, mainstream trends and rogue artworks, political economic theory and journalistic hot takes. It was strange to read this book in the thick of the COVID-19 pandemic, when our lifeworlds were shrinking-and expanding in weird ways, too. I purchased things during this time, built and repaired stuff, and developed new attachments to the new and old items in my home. I purged a lot, too. Fixing the Delta temperature cap on my shower faucet; assembling a bed frame for my son; attaching squirrelly plastic cabinet clips to keep a curious toddler from plundering the cleaning supplies; baking endless loaves of Julia Child's white bread; packing up old clothes for donation . . .. I did all these things as I read Things Worth Keeping, and Harold's prose made me more attentive (if sometimes unsettled) as I experienced my daily interactions with the things around me. A cardinal virt

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Author

Christopher Schaberg

Publisher

Oxford University Press (OUP)

Published

2021

Language

EN

Field

Arts and Humanities (Social Sciences)