Managing Overflow in Affluent Societies

199 Pages·2012·1.72 MB·English

by  Barbara Czarniawska

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Contents
List of Figures ix
Acknowledgments xi
1 The Inherited Theories of Overfl ow and Their Challengers 1
ORVAR LÖFGREN AND BARBARA CZARNIAWSKA
2 Pompes Funèbres and the Overfl owing of Ostentatious Funerals 13
PASCALE TROMPETTE
3 News Agencies: The Places Where Information
Permanently Overfl ows 31
BARBARA CZARNIAWSKA
4 “In datamatrix veritas”? Managing Wine Flow and
Information Overfl ow with a Two-Dimensional Barcode 52
FRANCK COCHOY
5 Book Reviewing For Amazon.com: How Socio-Technical
Systems Struggle to Make Less from More 68
TREVOR PINCH
6 Scenes from a Marriage: Regulating Flows Between Work
and Home 88
GIDEON KUNDA
7 It’s Simply Too Much! Coping with Domestic Overfl ow 101
ORVAR LÖFGREN
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8 Cozy Friday: An Analysis of Family Togetherness and Ritual
Overconsumption 125
HELENE BREMBECK
9 Waste in Overfl ow 141
LYNN ÅKESSON
10 Afterword: Keep Calm and Carry On? The Economic
History of Overfl ow 155
DEIRDRE NANSEN MCCLOSKEY
Contributors 165
References 171
Index 181
Figures
4.1 [email protected], 27 May 2010. 52
4.2 The demonstrator. 56
4.3 List of geoindicators. 57
4.4 Datamatrix. 58
4.5 Scale, layers, and fi lters as tools for overfl ow management:
lessons from interactive cartography. 62
8.1 Cozy Friday happens every Friday evening after work at the
homes of many Swedish families with children. 126
8.2 “It’s totally cozycozycozycozycozy.” 132
8.3 The importance of the sofa. 134
8.4 Crowding on the sofa. 136