Shoddy
From Devil’s Dust to the Renaissance of Rags

272 pages
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4 color plates, 65 halftones
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6 x 8
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© 2020
Review Quotes
Sherry Turkle, author of Reclaiming Conversation: The Power of Talk in a Digital Age
“Shoddy is that rare book that takes you from the direct experiences you share with the author (what to do with your used clothes? the feeling of ‘doing good’ when you donate them to clothe someone ‘less fortunate’) to the larger social, economic, historical, and, yes, moral universe in which those experiences live. Shell takes us on this kind of journey by searching for shoddy. Through her, we learn about the human costs of the Industrial Revolution, British Chartism, the economic realities of the American Civil War, the ideas that animated dissent—of Carlyle, Disraeli, and Marx, just for a start—and so much more, all through the eyes of shoddy. It is an exemplary book in its use of the visual record to weave a narrative that implicates current practice, not just in how we do scholarship across a range of fields in media and science and technology studies, but how we think about ourselves. Shoddy is a book that will change your mind.”
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