Inventar vs. acelerar

Man Ray, Invention (1916)

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«(…) When the whole environment is one in which inventiveness is being encouraged and paid for, there will be a great sense of shortage of time. It is not just a matter of rushing to catch and use a particular form of marking, while the season for it is on, though that may matter, too. In the top consumption class the attempts of some to control the information scene are being foiled by others who stand to gain by changing it. But since this is the class that both uses and fabricates the information, naturally they cannot help but outbid each other and speed up the game, turning the society into a more and more individualistic and competitive scene. (…)»

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Mary Douglas, Baron Isherwood, The World of Goods, Towards an Anthropology of Consumption, London, New York, Routledge, 1996 (1.ª ed. 1979), pp. 149-150

Ainda do Dia Internacional para a Erradicação da Pobreza

Henry Herbert La Thangue, Some Poor People

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«(…) the problem of getting people out of poverty is not how to get them enough to eat and drink; this is the condition for sustaining people in poverty. (…)»

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Mary Douglas, Baron Isherwood, The World of Goods, Towards an Anthropology of Consumption, London, New York, Routledge, 1996 (1.ª ed. 1979), p. 114.

Casas e coisas

Carl Larsson, A Varanda, aguarela do álbum A Nossa Casa (1894-1896)

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«(…) Consumption uses goods to make firm and visible a particular set of judgments in the fluid processes of classifying persons and events. We have now defined it as ritual activity.»

«(…) Within the available time and space the individual uses consumption to say something about himself, his family, his locality (…). Consumption is an active process in which all the social categories are being continually redefined.»

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Mary Douglas, Baron Isherwood, The World of Goods, Towards an Anthropology of Consumption, London, New York, Routledge, 1996 (1.ª ed. 1979), p. 45.

Coisas: móveis

Michele Maule, Two Chairs (link)

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«(…) Goods assembled together in ownership make physical, visible statements about the hierarchy of values to which their chooser subscribes. Goods can be cherished or judged inappropriate, discarded, and replaced. (…)»

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Mary Douglas, Baron Isherwood, The World of Goods, Towards an Anthropology of Consumption, London, New York, Routledge, 1996 (1.ª ed. 1979), p. IX.