Uncontained accumulation: Hidden heterotopias of storage and spillage

ABSTRACT

Domestic storage spaces are containers for the concealment of things whose value is inarticulable. Unlike the curation of collections, material accumulations grow of their own accord, accruing mass and animacy and inserting their affective hooks into the tissue of our sociality. Those who fail to contain accumulations are labelled hoarders.

KEYWORDS:

• Hoarding
• concealment
• space
• disorder
• material possessions

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ORCID

Sasha Newell http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3517-8629