Aggregate cost of objects, sold so far: $112.02
Aggregate sales, post-Significance: $2,857.22
Coming up this week: If you haven’t already, you will enter our Six Word Contest with SmithMag, and perhaps join the ranks of Significant Objects contributors as a result; deadline is Friday. The auction for the object made Significant by the winner of our Slate contest ends tomorrow. Also: Objects with stories by Ben Ehrenreich, Meghan O’Rourke, Victor LaValle, and more.
Recent reactions from elsewhere: Archivist Alison offers a good analysis here: “From an archivist’s point of view, these stories that give significance (as measured by auction value) to these cookie-cutter reminders of our mass-produced society are equivalent to an invented context. Context, to an archivist, is to be protected and guarded above almost everything else. And for good reason. How glorious is the power of context in our current society that an entirely fictitious one can ‘increase the significance’ of an object in dollars, even if only to one person.” Agenda Inc. zeroes in on comparisons to branding, here. Techdirt follows up on the project with new analysis here. Tonic.com checks it out here. Quirky Is A Compliment gives us some love here. For more reactions see our Press Page. Did we miss your take? Please let us know in the comments.
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