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Journal of Economics and Social Research , vol.10, no.19, pp.16-26, 2023 (Peer-Reviewed Journal)
In this study, it is asserted that many gadgets and accordingly habits which we reckon as normal and indispensable part ofour lives are indeed modern and postmodern outputs yet they are displayed as necessities. This standpoint is reviewed interms of correlation to modernism and postmodernism over two models of vacuum cleaners and robotic vacuum cleanersthat can be regarded as pioneers. The invention of vacuum cleaners should be evaluated in regards of developments in lasttwo centuries. The invention, marketing and sale of vacuum cleaners are related to aims of civilized people to have crystalclear houses with reasons like hygene, investment to public health and also labour force, public sphere-private spheredivision. It is aimed to get rid of the dust reminding connection to the soil and past restraints. Becoming apparent ofborders of house in micro-size, nation state in macro-size necessitate exclusion practices by accepting or refusing hard-edgedecisions. The practice of beating-sweeping-cleaning and later disposing functions in both sizes. Robotic vacuum cleanerinholds time-space split, loss of agent, even surveillance devoted to Big Data and consumption cycle in the name of sparetime. As a nominee of symbol for postmodern threshold, it vacuums and render all our privacy, routines, time-spaceperception meaningless. In mapping which is common thread of modernism and postmodernism, whereas in former largescale is on focus, in the latter it is seen that the last castle of privacy, home is the primary target.