Object Lessons; an essay and book series about the hidden lives of ordinary things, from sardines to silence, juniper berries to jumper cables, driveways to footprints, founders to partnerships.
Series Editors: Ian Bogost and Christopher Schaberg
Published by The Atlantic and Bloomsbury.
Each Object Lessons project will start from a specific inspiration: an anthropological query, ecological matter, archeological discovery, historical event, literary passage, personal narrative, philosophical speculation, technological innovation—and from there develop original insights around and novel lessons about the object in question.
Object Lessons invites contributions
from scholars, writers, scientists, artists, journalists, and others. Potential topics include: rubber band, plastic bag, tornado, turpentine, wind, wall, Glock, drone, Lamborghini, flak jacket, steamboat, shoehorn, laughter, hatred, air, Google Glass, catnip, platinum, money, rebar, polyester, microchip, marriage, time machine, celebrity, Blowpop, cornbread, combine, honey, Velcro, copper wire, cruise ship, cilium, hot wing—the possibilities are quite literally endless.
The Object Lessons series achieves something very close to magic:
Series Editors: Ian Bogost and Christopher Schaberg
Published by The Atlantic and Bloomsbury.
Each Object Lessons project will start from a specific inspiration: an anthropological query, ecological matter, archeological discovery, historical event, literary passage, personal narrative, philosophical speculation, technological innovation—and from there develop original insights around and novel lessons about the object in question.
Object Lessons invites contributions
from scholars, writers, scientists, artists, journalists, and others. Potential topics include: rubber band, plastic bag, tornado, turpentine, wind, wall, Glock, drone, Lamborghini, flak jacket, steamboat, shoehorn, laughter, hatred, air, Google Glass, catnip, platinum, money, rebar, polyester, microchip, marriage, time machine, celebrity, Blowpop, cornbread, combine, honey, Velcro, copper wire, cruise ship, cilium, hot wing—the possibilities are quite literally endless.
The Object Lessons series achieves something very close to magic:
Object Lessons " Object Lessons is an essay and book series about the hidden lives of ordinary things
Remote Control While we all use remote controls, we understand little about their history or their impact on our daily lives. This book offers lively analyses of the remote control's material and cultural history to explain how such an innocuous media accessory can change the way we occupy our houses, interact with our families, and experience the world.
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