Possessed: A Cultural History of Hoarding

Join Rebecca Falkoff, Raymond Malewitz & Bradley Lewis as they discuss the cultural history of hoardingJoin the NYU Center for the Humanities and the NYU Medical Humanities Working Group as we celebrate the publication of Possessed: A Cultural History of Hoarding (Cornell University Press), which asks how hoarding, once a paradigm of economic rationality, became a picture of madness. Rebecca Falkoff brings a hoardicritical approach to this question, convening eclectic texts and tools to conduct an archeology of the fraught materiality of the present at cluttered sites of modernity. Image Description: A book, Possessed: A Cultural History of Hoarding by…