Susan Zieger, a professor of English at the University of California, Riverside, writes about the cultural history of consumerism. She is the author of The Mediated Mind: Affect, Ephemera, and Consumerism in the Nineteenth Century (Fordham University Press, 2018) and is currently writing “Logistical Life,” for which she has won a 2019 Visiting Fellowship at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin. 

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