How Long to Read Entangled Things: Objects Beyond Agency and Disposability

How Long Does it Take to Read Entangled Things: Objects Beyond Agency and Disposability?

It takes the average reader 4 hours and 22 minutes to read Entangled Things: Objects Beyond Agency and Disposability by Alison Hulme

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

Entangled Things takes the concept of entanglement as its starting point in investigating the often unintentional relationship between us and the material things we are fond of, or detest, obsessed with or reliant upon. Hulme uses each chapter to focus on a specific ethnography to illustrate a particular form of entanglement and uses this to discuss specific theories that relate to, or are specifically concerned with, entanglement. In so doing, Hulme encourages a wider consideration of the place of humans in the world, and the kind of choices we enact when influenced by the things we possess. Through engagement with a variety of thought on our relationship with things, including considering this relationship in light of ideas of alienation (Marx), conspicuous consumption (Vehblen), class (Baudrillard and Bourdieu), and more recently in terms of our place as consumer-citizens (Trentmann) and as members of a connected system in which human and non-human are blurred (Bennett, Latour, Ingold) and as evidence of our own creative agency (Miller), Hulme advances the concept of entanglement as the best means through which this relationship can be viewed. Rather than being something that is 'messy' in a simplistic way, Hulme conveys how political intricacies abound in the things with which we become entangled, regardless of how much agency we do or do not have in each specific scenario. Carefully weaving together established theory and practical ethnography, this is a must-read for students of anthropology, cultural studies, psychology and material culture.

How long is Entangled Things: Objects Beyond Agency and Disposability?

Entangled Things: Objects Beyond Agency and Disposability by Alison Hulme is 256 pages long, and a total of 65,536 words.

This makes it 86% the length of the average book. It also has 80% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Entangled Things: Objects Beyond Agency and Disposability Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 5 hours and 58 minutes to read Entangled Things: Objects Beyond Agency and Disposability aloud.

What Reading Level is Entangled Things: Objects Beyond Agency and Disposability?

Entangled Things: Objects Beyond Agency and Disposability is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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