Matter Materiality and Modern Culture

<p><em>Matter Materiality and Modern Culture</em> offers a new approach to the study of contemporary objects to give the reader a new understanding of the relationship between people and their material world. It asks how the very stuff of our world has shaped our societies by addressing a broad array of questions including:<br> * why do Berliners have such strange door keys?<br> * should the Isle of Wight pop festival be preserved?<br> * could aliens tell a snail shell from a waste paper basket<br> * why did Victorian England make so much of death and burial?</p>