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Thanks, Matt, for a very reasonable, even-handed response. quite right – this post was over the top, and endemic of the kind of angry, knee-jerk I was trying to criticise. To be honest, it was motivated a bit by a general dislike of Russell work; I find his analysis of most web phenomena to be lacking the kind of subtlety and insight that someone of intelligence should be striving for, and for that, I often question his motivations (as much as, somewhere in my stupid brain, I sympathise with him).

I guess I was a bit exasperated at what the column was trying to achieve. Fetishising consumer goods is generally a bad thing. Such an argument could have been made 20 years ago, or even 50 years ago. And even that, given the paucity of in my own writing, probably the last person who should condemn a bad column, I help but wonder: what was the point of this other that to repeat that is

Ultimately, Smith seems to argue unboxing is strange because is displays a lack of imagination and a sad, misplaced affection for things – something any of our students could have also said. What curious about is the place of the object and our relation to it when things that were formerly physical become digital. What happens when there is a shift in our material connection to the of (or metaphors of containment)? To say “oh, come on, everything about this is just sad” seemed as conventional and expected as a Margaret Wente column. I guess I wanted something that made me say “huh – never thought of that before”.

It is unfair on my as I wanted something else. probably the wrong audience for this column. But I think Smith jumped too quickly to the evaluative declaration, and to me, that fits into a pattern of many established print publications attempting to assess online happenings through what at times feels like a hierarchy of political and cultural investments (i.e. the primacy of the material, print, the printed word, longevity, narrative, linear thinking, long-form prose… etc etc.)

So where my half-assed a link between authoritative voices and authoritative came from. I think only bloggers/web-heads should talk about the web. I just wish Smith would do it with a little more nuance, because it feels he often simply writes to confirm his apprehensions. If in the digital age, newspapers can still be places to aggregate and collect talent and why not offer analysis that goes beyond what anyone could have said?

So sure, I think unboxing is sometimes creepy and sad. But, as I said, I think also a historical reaction, in multiple ways, and glossing over that seems intellectually lazy to me (again, pot, kettle etc.). I guess my concern is that the fetish inherently evil; as you suggest, what social relations it invokes. Is it about possession and ownership of something that inevitably gets bound up in the exchange of commodities? Or is about the veneration of a moment or a community or something else? Material objects always connect us to something. But what?

All that said, clear that I just really like Smith and am a bit bored of bookish, literary types decrying everything they see online. often a fair reaction, but just tired of it, especially because, half the time, people who are writing for free simply because they want to are saying more interesting things.