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TY - JOUR
T1 - The Collector's World
AU - Diken, Bulent
AU - Lausten, Carsten Bagge
N1 - This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Journal for Cultural Research on 1 June 2020, available online: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/14797585.2020.1773650
PY - 2020/6/1
Y1 - 2020/6/1
N2 - The article discusses the figure of the collector. We start with positioning the collector in relation to a lack, emphasizing that collecting is not about aesthetic beauty, pleasure or even perfectness, but primarily about filling a gap. The collection itself is merely a by-product of the desire to collect. Discussing how this desire is socially mediated, we move on to contextualizing the collector in relation to the distinction between the useful and the useless. We stress, in this context, that collecting is an inoperative praxis. This is followed by a discussion of the collector’s psychopathology in terms of affects and interpassivity. Finally, we turn to the history of the collector and to collecting as a field in sociological terms, and end with articulating a typology of the collector.
AB - The article discusses the figure of the collector. We start with positioning the collector in relation to a lack, emphasizing that collecting is not about aesthetic beauty, pleasure or even perfectness, but primarily about filling a gap. The collection itself is merely a by-product of the desire to collect. Discussing how this desire is socially mediated, we move on to contextualizing the collector in relation to the distinction between the useful and the useless. We stress, in this context, that collecting is an inoperative praxis. This is followed by a discussion of the collector’s psychopathology in terms of affects and interpassivity. Finally, we turn to the history of the collector and to collecting as a field in sociological terms, and end with articulating a typology of the collector.
KW - the colector
KW - lack
KW - interpassivity
KW - typology of the collector
KW - the useless
U2 - 10.1080/14797585.2020.1773650
DO - 10.1080/14797585.2020.1773650
M3 - Journal article
VL - 24
SP - 101
EP - 112
JO - Journal for Cultural Research
JF - Journal for Cultural Research
SN - 1479-7585
IS - 2
ER -