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Further Reading: Eugenic Design
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Further reading, references and notes from Christina Cogdell's Eugenic Design, Streamlining America in the 1930s

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"Design historians Ellen Lupton and J. Abbott Miller have gone so far as to interpret streamlining as an "excretory aesthetic" because the ideal streamlined form so closely resembles the products of bodily elimination, and because the first major industrial design style, it encouraged the production of waste through planned obsolescence and the processes of consumer purchasing and discarding" Lupton and Miller, The Bathroom, the Kitchen, and the Aesthetics of Waste, 65, 67

"Kellogg spoke of the "civilised colon" as a "poor cripple, maimed, misshapen, ... infected, paralyzed, inefficient, incompetent"

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"Normal Itinerary of a meal"

"A Popular Account of the Travels of a Breakfast Through the Food Tube and of the Ten Gates and Several Stations Through Which It Passes, also of the Obstacles Which it Sometimes Meets"

"The age needs streamlined thinking to keep pace with our streamlined machines" Egmont Arens, in notes for his speeches on streamlining in the mid 1930s

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