Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. Pause and look around: you will see that you are surrounded by glass. It reflects and refracts light through your windows; it encircles a glowing filament above you; it's in a mirror hanging on the wall; it lies shattered in a dented corner of an iPhone-you're drinking water out of a pint glass. Taking up a most common object, rarely considered because assumed to be transparent, John Garrison draws evocative connections between historical depictions of glass and emerging visions that see it as holding a unique promise for new forms of interaction. Grounded in everyday examples, this book offers a series of surprising insights into how we increasingly find ourselves living in a world made of glass. Object Lessons is published in partnership with an essay series in The Atlantic.
ISBN: | 9781628924244 |
Publication date: | 5th November 2015 |
Author: | John S. Garrison |
Publisher: | Bloomsbury Academic an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) |
Format: | Paperback |
Pagination: | 136 pages |
Series: | Object Lessons |
Genres: |
Material culture Philosophy: aesthetics Cultural studies Literary theory |