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sleeping in comfort: gracious living

Such a disconnect between the bright, optimistic and shiny marketing image of Ikea and the reality of slave labor production; all those earnest and evolved Swedes, post-Bergman’s, meticulously laying the framework for a do-it-yourself assembly post modern aesthetic of cheap … Continue reading

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thrift store arcadia

The Arcades Project. It was a preoccupation for what Walter Benjamin perceived as the commodification of things. The individual aura and human experience that encased existence could be fragmented and packaged like security derivatives and tranches of sub-prime mortgages. Benjamin … Continue reading

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