Stuffocation is a manifesto for a vital change in how we live. It's the one important book you won't be able to live without.
James Wallman is a journalist, trend forecaster, speaker, and author. He has written for GQ, the New York Times, the FT, and advised clients such as Absolut, BMW and Nike. James wrote the futurology column in T3 magazine and was editor of The Future Laboratory's forecasting publication. He currently lives in London with his wife and children.
Experientialism, as Wallman calls it, will define our future just
as materialism has shaped our present
*Observer*
Fascinating, inspiring, and great fun to read
*Sunday Times*
Particularly timely ... [Wallman] is spot on
*Daily Mail*
Persuasive... clever
*Financial Times*
With a sociologist's eye and a storyteller's ear, James Wallman
takes us on a tour... he identifies the rise of a new value system
among those who are consciously replacing materialism with what he
rightly calls experientialism. Spot on
*B. Joseph Pine II and James H. Gilmore, authors, The Experience
Economy*
Amazing, brilliant, incredible ... It's going to change my life.
Buy this book and give 10 others away
*BBC Radio 2 The Chris Evans Breakfast Show*
James Wallman has engagingly woven a mix of true-life stories to
demonstrate why our materialistic society no longer makes us happy
and what we can do about it. This is written with warmth and wit.
The surprise is that Wallman's glimpses of the future also
illuminate, with rare insight, the difficult process of culture
change
*Caroline van den Brul MBE, author, Crackle and Fizz*
Mixes personal and social commentary with a sympathetic
understanding of where excessive consumerism comes from, and also
has really good recommendations on what to do about it. An
original, provocative mixture
*Peter N Stearns, provost, George Mason University*
An exhilarating ghost train ride through the madness of
over-consumption, during which we are taunted by our own greed.
Fortunately, there is light at the end of the tunnel - and James
Wallman takes us there
*Mark Tungate, author, Adland: A Global History of Advertising*
It will definitely change your life and could change the world
*Chris Evans*
Stuffocation will take you on the journey of your life. As Wallman
builds his case, the true value of experience emerges and resonates
.... I'll venture that no one goes unchanged by this book
*Jeanne E Arnold, professor, department of anthropology, UCLA*
What Malcom Gladwell did for psychology in Blink, James Wallman
does for the fascinating world of trend forecasting in
Stuffocation. Backed with quirky stories and compelling examples
that are a joy to read, Wallman lifts the veil on why we live the
way we do today... and why our obsession with 'stuff' may be about
to change. You'll never look at a visit to the shops in the same
way again. A gem
*Marianne Cantwell, author, Be a Free-Range Human*
Wallman perceives a new flowering of resistance to the siren lure
of physical commodoties
*Guardian*
Sounds tempting, doesn't it? Achieving happiness through
consciously chucking out or flogging off what we no longer need ...
If I can purge my wardrobe of half its contents, then I will be
happier, just as Mr Wallman predicts
*Daily Mail*
Clearly argued and contains plenty of interesting case studies
*Independent on Sunday*
Compelling
*Daily Telegraph*
Incisive, passionate, persuasive ... Wallman writes in an engaging,
fluid style
*The Sunday Business Post*
a blueprint for future living
*Daily Telegraph*
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