Dec 27, 2023

The top stuff of 2023

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Friendship bracelets, protest signs, Trump's mugshot: Rob Walker talks what objects shaped the past year.

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Cataloging the top objects of 2023

by David Brancaccio , Nic Perez and Alex Schroeder

Dec 27, 2023

"Whe more digital we get, the more we crave these sort of physical manifestations of the digital," says Rob Walker.

"The more digital we get, the more we crave these sort of physical manifestations of the digital and the digital world amplifies physical things," says Rob Walker.

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