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Introduction
1. Theorizing Things: Disciplinary Diversity in Thinking about Objects
2. Valued Possessions: The Worth of Things
3. Making Things: Labor in Production
4. Producing Things: A History of Systems of Manufacture
5. Beautiful Things: The Aesthetics of Surfaces
6. The Greed Imperative: User Needs in Product Design
7. Planned Obsolescence: Unsustainable Consumption
8. Objects as Signs: What do Things Mean?
9. The Obsession of Possession: Fetish Objects
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