The Practice of MisuseIn the age of Ikea Hackers and salvagepunks, this book charts the emergence of "rugged consumers" who creatively misuse, reuse, and repurpose the objects within their environments to suit their idiosyncratic needs and desires. Figures of both literary and material culture whose behavior evokes an American can do ethic, rugged consumers mediate between older mythic models of self sufficiency and the consumption driven realities of our passive, post