作者:S. B. Cwerner、A. Metcalfe
DOI:10.1093/jdh/16.3.229
日期:2003.1.1
This article examines discourses and practices of storage and clutter in relation to the social construction of the home in contemporary Britain. The role of storage practices has been overlooked in much of the literature on consumption, material culture, design and the home. And yet, especially since the 1990s, there has been an explosion in popular cultural forms of discussion and representations of the home while much of this has explored the domestic worlds of design, decoration and DIY more generally, a large number of books have focused specifically on storage as the antidote to what is preceived as the growing problem of clutter in the contemporary home. Through an analysis of these texts we show that even though they wrap up their ideas in a popular psychology of personal therpy, they do provide some insights useful for discussions of issues related to consumption, material culture and domestic design. More fundamentally, they reveal that the home needs to be coceptualized not simply as a place for living, but also as set of spaces, channels and flows, as objects and people find their way into, through, and sometimes out of, the home. We argue that at the heart of these discourses is a limited conceptualization of time and space and a desire to make spaces and objects present and manageable. We then contrast these discourses with everyday practices of storage and clutter in the home. Based on original research data, we argue that time and space need to be analysed as multiple and layered, as objects are subject to various practices of dispersal, divestment and displacement in the gaps between consumption as acquisition, use and their eventual disposal. As a result, clutter needs to be understood not merely as the underside of storage, but also as part of an iterative spatio-temporal ordering of home and identity that follows the traces left behind by the dynamic of storage.
本文探讨了与当代英国家居社会建设有关的存储和杂乱的论述与实践。在许多关于消费、物质文化、设计和家居的文献中,存储实践的作用一直被忽视。然而,特别是自 20 世纪 90 年代以来,关于家居的流行文化讨论和表现形式出现了爆炸式的增长,其中大部分探讨了更广泛的设计、装饰和 DIY 等家居世界,而大量书籍则特别关注储藏,将其视为解决当代家居中日益严重的杂乱问题的解药。通过对这些书籍的分析,我们发现,尽管这些书籍将其观点包装成了一种流行的个人心理,但它们确实为讨论与消费、物质文化和家居设计相关的问题提供了一些有用的见解。更重要的是,它们揭示了家居不仅需要被视为一个居住场所,还需要被视为一系列空间、通道和流动,因为物品和人都会进入、通过家居,有时还会离开家居。我们认为,这些论述的核心是对时间和空间的有限概念化,以及让空间和物品呈现出来并便于管理的愿望。然后,我们将这些论述与家庭中的日常存储和杂乱做法进行对比。基于原始研究数据,我们认为时间和空间需要作为多重和多层次来分析,因为物品在消费、获取、使用和最终处置之间的空隙中,会受到各种分散、剥离和移位做法的影响。因此,凌乱不仅需要被理解为储藏的背面,还需要被理解为家庭和身份的迭代时空排序的一部分,这种排序遵循储藏动态留下的痕迹。