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Bird (Object Lessons) by Erik Anderson
19.99 AUD
Category: Animals | Series: Object Lessons Ser.
Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. Hope, as Emily Dickinson famously wrote, is the thing with feathers. Erik Anderson, on the other hand, regards our obsession with birds as too sentimental, too precious or romantic. Birds don't ex ...Show more
Blackface (Object Lessons) by Ayanna Thompson; Christopher Schaberg (Series edited by); Ian Bogost (Series edited by)
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Category: Culture & Ideas | Series: Object Lessons Ser.
A New Statesman essential non-fiction book of 2021Featured in Book Riot's 12 best nonfiction books about Black identity and historyWhy are there so many examples of public figures, entertainers, and normal, everyday people in blackface? And why aren't there as many examples of people of color in whitefa ...Show more
Cell Tower (Object Lessons) by Steven E. Jones; Ian Bogost (Series edited by); Christopher Schaberg (Series edited by)
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Category: Science & Natural History | Series: Object Lessons Ser.
Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. The cell tower is a gigantic object we rarely see, effectively invisible, at the periphery of our vision but at the center of everyday experience. Cropping up everywhere, whether steel latticework ...Show more
Compact Disc (Object Lessons) by Robert Barry
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Category: Science & Natural History | Series: Object Lessons Ser.
Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. The story of the compact disc is also the story of the end of physical media. It is the story of how the quest for perfection laid the grounds for the death of a great industry. For in the passage ...Show more
Email (Object Lessons) by Randy Malamud; Christopher Schaberg (Series edited by); Ian Bogost (Series edited by)
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Category: Culture & Ideas | Series: Object Lessons Ser.
Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. Do you feel your consciousness, your attention, and your intelligence (not to mention your eyesight) being sucked away, byte by byte, in a deadening tsunami of ill-composed blather, corporate grou ...Show more
Glitter (Object Lessons) by Nicole Seymour; Christopher Schaberg (Series edited by); Ian Bogost (Series edited by)
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Category: Art | Series: Object Lessons Ser.
Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.Glitter reveals the complexity of an object often dismissed as frivolous. Nicole Seymour describes how glitter's consumption and status have shifted across centuries-from ancient cosmetic to queer a ...Show more
Hashtag (Object Lessons) by Elizabeth Losh; Christopher Schaberg (Series edited by); Ian Bogost (Series edited by)
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Category: Culture & Ideas | Series: Object Lessons Ser.
Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.Hashtags silence as well as shout. They originate in the quiet of the archive and the breathless suspense of the control room, as well as in the roar of rallies in the streets. The #hashtag is a com ...Show more
High Heel (Object Lessons) by Summer Brennan; Christopher Schaberg (Contribution by); Ian Bogost (Contribution by)
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Category: Fashion & Textiles | Series: Object Lessons Ser.
Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. Fetishized, demonized, celebrated, and outlawed, the high heel is central to the iconography of modern womanhood. But are high heels good? Are they feminist? What does it mean for a woman (or, for ...Show more
Hyphen (Object Lessons) by Pardis Mahdavi; Christopher Schaberg (Series edited by); Ian Bogost (Series edited by)
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Category: Reference | Series: Object Lessons Ser.
Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. To hyphenate or not to hyphenate has been a central point of controversy since before the imprinting of the first Gutenberg Bible. And yet, the hyphen has persisted, bringing and bridging new w ...Show more
Magnet (Object Lessons) by Eva K. Barbarossa; Christopher Schaberg (Series edited by); Ian Bogost (Series edited by)
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Category: Culture & Ideas | Series: Object Lessons Ser.
Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. For over two thousand years magnets have inspired tales of myth, magic, exploration, science, and art. From the physical to the metaphorical, our language is littered with magnetic allusions: magn ...Show more
Ocean (Object Lessons) by Steve Mentz
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Category: Science & Natural History | Series: Object Lessons Ser.
Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. The ocean comprises the largest object on our planet. Retelling human history from an oceanic rather than terrestrial point of view unsettles our relationship with the natural environment. Unlike ...Show more
Perfume (Object Lessons) by Megan Volpert; Christopher Schaberg (Series edited by); Ian Bogost (Series edited by)
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Category: Fashion & Textiles | Series: Object Lessons Ser.
Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.Our sense of smell is crucial to our survival. We can smell fear, disease, food. Fragrance is also entertainment. We can smell an expensive bottle of perfume at a high-end department store. Perhaps ...Show more