Description
Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.
Though we try to imagine otherwise, waste is every object, plus time. Whatever else an object is, it's also waste-or was, or will be. All that is needed is time or a change of sentiment or circumstance. Waste is not merely the field of discarded objects, but the name we give to our troubled relationship with the decaying world outside ourselves. Waste focuses on those waste objects that most fundamentally shape our lives and also attempts to understand our complicated emotional and intellectual relationships to our own refuse: nuclear waste, climate debris, pop-culture rubbish, digital detritus, and more. Object Lessons is published in partnership with an essay series in The Atlantic.Author: Brian Thill
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Published: 09/24/2015
Pages: 152
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.30lbs
Size: 6.40h x 4.70w x 0.60d
ISBN13: 9781628924367
ISBN10: 1628924365
BISAC Categories:
- Literary Criticism | Semiotics & Theory
- Philosophy | Aesthetics
- Social Science | Anthropology | Cultural & Social
About the Author
Brian Thill is Professor of English at Golden West College, USA. His writing has appeared in The Atlantic, Jacobin, Mediations, 3: AM Magazine, the Los Angeles Review of Books, and elsewhere