Translator's Acknowledgements |
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Introduction |
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A The Functional System, or Objective Discourse |
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I Structures of Interior Design |
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The Traditional Environment |
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The Modern Object Liberated in its Function |
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15 | (2) |
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17 | (1) |
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17 | (2) |
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19 | (1) |
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20 | (1) |
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20 | (2) |
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22 | (1) |
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Towards a Sociology of Interior Design? |
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23 | (2) |
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Man the Interior Designer |
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25 | (5) |
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II Structures of Atmosphere |
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Atmospheric Values: Colour |
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30 | (1) |
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31 | (3) |
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34 | (3) |
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37 | (1) |
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Atmospheric Values: Materials |
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38 | (1) |
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Natural Wood/Cultural Wood |
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38 | (2) |
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40 | (1) |
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41 | (3) |
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The Man of Relationship and Atmosphere |
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44 | (1) |
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45 | (2) |
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Cultural Connotation and Censorship |
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47 | (2) |
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Atmospheric Values: Gestural Systems and Forms |
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The Traditional Gestural System: Effort |
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49 | (1) |
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The Functional Gestural System: Control |
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50 | (2) |
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52 | (1) |
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53 | (2) |
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Stylization, Manipulability, Envelopment |
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The End of the Symbolic Dimension |
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56 | (2) |
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The Abstractness of Power |
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58 | (2) |
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60 | (1) |
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Functional Form: The Lighter |
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61 | (1) |
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Formal Connotation: Tail Fins |
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62 | (2) |
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64 | (3) |
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III Conclusion: Naturalness and Functionality |
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67 | (8) |
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Addendum: The Domestic World and the Car |
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69 | (6) |
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B The Non-Functional System, or Subjective Discourse |
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I Marginal Objects: Antiques |
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Atmospheric Value: Historicalness |
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77 | (1) |
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Symbolic Value: The Myth of the Origin |
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78 | (2) |
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80 | (1) |
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The Neo-Cultural Syndrome: Restoration |
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81 | (4) |
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Synchronism, Diachronism, Anachronism |
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85 | (2) |
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Reverse Projection: The Technical Object and Primitive Man |
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87 | (1) |
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88 | (2) |
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90 | (1) |
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II A Marginal System: Collecting |
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The Object Abstracted from Its Function |
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91 | (2) |
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93 | (2) |
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The Finest of Domestic Animals |
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95 | (1) |
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96 | (2) |
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From Quantity to Quality: The Unique Object |
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98 | (2) |
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Objects and Habits: Wrist-Watches |
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100 | (2) |
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Objects and Time: A Controlled Cycle |
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102 | (3) |
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The Sequestered Object: Jealousy |
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105 | (2) |
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The Object Destructured: Perversion |
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107 | (4) |
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From Serial Motivation to Real Motivation |
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111 | (2) |
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A Discourse Addressed to Oneself |
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113 | (2) |
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C The Metafunctional and Dysfunctional System: Gadgets and Robots |
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Technical Connotation: Automatism |
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117 | (1) |
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`Functional' Transcendence |
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118 | (3) |
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Functional Aberration: Gadgets |
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121 | (2) |
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Pseudo-Functionality: Gizmos |
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123 | (5) |
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Metafunctionality: Robots |
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128 | (5) |
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The Transformations of Technology |
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133 | (5) |
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Technics and the Unconscious System |
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138 | (7) |
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D The Socio-Ideological System of Objects and Their Consumption |
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147 | (22) |
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The Pre-Industrial Object and the Industrial Model |
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147 | (3) |
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The `Personalized' Object |
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150 | (1) |
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151 | (1) |
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152 | (1) |
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The Ideal Nature of Models |
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153 | (3) |
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From the Model to the Series |
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156 | (1) |
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The Technical Deficit of the Serial Object |
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156 | (2) |
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The `Style' Deficit of the Serial Object |
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158 | (2) |
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160 | (2) |
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162 | (2) |
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A Misadventure of the Person |
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164 | (2) |
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166 | (3) |
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169 | (9) |
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Rights and Duties of the Consumer-Citizen |
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169 | (3) |
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The Precedence of Consumption: A New Ethic |
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172 | (1) |
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173 | (1) |
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174 | (1) |
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The Ambiguity of the Domestic Object |
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175 | (3) |
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178 | (39) |
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Discourse on Objects and Discourse-As-Object |
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178 | (1) |
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Advertising in the Indicative and in the Imperative |
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179 | (1) |
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The Logic of Father Christmas |
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180 | (2) |
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Society as Maternal Agency: Airborne's Armchair |
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182 | (5) |
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The Festival of Buying Power |
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187 | (3) |
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Gratification/Repression: A Two-Sided Agency |
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190 | (4) |
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The Presumption of Collectivity |
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194 | (1) |
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194 | (3) |
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197 | (1) |
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197 | (2) |
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199 | (1) |
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199 | (2) |
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201 | (3) |
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204 | (1) |
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Structure and Demarcation: Brands |
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205 | (7) |
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212 | (5) |
Conclusion: Towards a Definition of `Consumption' |
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