Collecting things is a very human thing to do… but why do we do it? After a significant and personal family event, Martin reconsiders the accepted habit of accumulating stuff—whether purchased or inherited from loved ones.
Notes
- Collection or Clutter? The psychology of collecting on ABC News
- Laws of Media: the New Science (1988) by Marshall and Eric McLuhan on Monoskop
- iMac G4 on Wikipedia
- Micro.blog post on ‘privacy and ephemerality’ by Matt Cassem
- My response to Matt Cassem’s post
Lounge Ruminator 