Putzen: Eine Kulturtechnik

The book Putzen - a Cultural Technique penetrates the secrets of the everyday in order to find out how culture is lived and nature is conquered through seemingly incidental cleaning, how hierarchies are created, social order of precedence is manifested and traditions are implemented. What is considered clean and why? Who cleans for whom and with what? And how does this affect the design of appliances, furniture and cities? And finally: What traces does cleaning leave behind? With every dust-wiper, with every commissioning of the vacuum cleaner, with every purchase of a cleaning agent, a socio-political act also takes place. This book questions the cultural and political dimension of cleaning and the social responsibility of culture, in this case the cleansing culture.