An engineer friend once told me about a course he’d taken in which one of the things they learned was how to design for planned obsolescence. Disturbing. This article however has some very nice thinking on how we ought to value stuff more (in a sense) and how that changes the consumer impulse. I really like the bits like this: “…the term ‘inanimate object’ is similarly inadequate to describe the things that we collect and discard. In Vibrant Matter (2010), Bennett writes that if we paid attention to the aliveness of matter, we wouldn’t be so careless with our stuff.”