Well, I could examine the doing of laundry over time, or how it’s done in different cultures. Or, to go in a direction I know more about, how dry cleaning works into the story. Or how laundry done in different parts of the country is different – for instance, in New York you can drop your stuff off to be washed and folded for the same price as doing it yourself. I suppose I’d take it in some philosophical way. Like, try a thesis about how we have developed technology to the point that we can begin to escape it. Heidegger’s concept of Enframing (taking the world as useable energy and materials, rather than allowing the world to arise out of itself on it’s own terms) might be useful. Hm. How about: one way we abstract a concept of the body is from the clothing we use. In technologizing the process of cleaning our clothes, part of what we are doing is reiterating the concept-appropriation of the world by our tendency to Enframe.