“(…) The Accumulations ironically cater
for – furnish, equip, dress, accessorise – a society in which the devastations
of fascist ultra-authoritarianism, war deprivation and even atomic obliteration
were somehow to be rectified through the production and consumption of disposable
goods and their corresponding stereotypes, where overdoing was a social
obligation in the performance of gender, consumerism and geopolitical alike.”