Dave Hickey wrote that “ human
beings lack the most basic prerequisites for relating to each other, we instead
choose to define our commonality with an ever changing panoply of external
objects and occasions”[1].
I am interested in the intersection between objects and cultural behavior. Beginning this investigation with the phenomenon of the Hot Tub, my interest stems directly from the intriguing ways we handle social inadequacies and, moreover, how we are dependent on such objects as a means of projecting our innermost pleasures and desires.