Arts & Culture
The Cultural Logic of Hoarding as a Response to Consumer Society
Quick fact
In a society that constantly tells us to buy more, hoarding emerges as a hidden resistance: a refusal to throw away, a reclaiming of value from a system that manufactures waste as quickly as it manufactures goods.
Why this is interesting
You know that feeling of holding onto an old phone 'just in case'? Now imagine that impulse turned up to an extreme. What if that impulse isn't just a personal quirk, but a logical response to the world of consumerism around us?