Lounge Ruminator

12. Why Do We Collect Things?


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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
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