Contextual Reality

The Stray Shopping Cart Project As a former chaser of shopping carts, I can truly appreciate their ability to inspire projects of this nature. I am dissapointed by the failure to treat shopping carts that destabilize our traditional notions of what a shopping cart IS (i.e. a laterally stackable unit of shopping cargo capacity) such as race car and spaceship shopping carts. That last sentence was a test: any true historian of shopping carts would understand that the category has never been stable. But we would like to believe it so because we do not want to consider the true other: the handicapped shopping cart, the lumber shopping cart, the dolley, the hand-truck, etc. All of these are the carts of the lower and oppressed classes; those who must shop in order to survive, those unreified proles who shop without the fetishized children sitting in the seat, their pudgy little legs representing not happiness but oppression.