This course considers “stuff” as both material possessions and slang for emotional issues, in attempt to examine the connections among what we collect, what we think we need and who we think we are. Studying essays, documentary film, photography and popular culture will help us to investigate, analyze and argue different opinions about stuff in contemporary global society. As artists and writers, we will evaluate collecting versus hoarding, fashion as identity, personal property around the world, consumerist versus recycling cultures, Found Art, spiritual and moral asceticism, shopping as numbing, and anti-capitalist endeavors like tiny houses and live organ donation. Students may research their own “stuff”.  

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