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Ocean (Object Lessons) by Steve Mentz
$19.99 AUD
Category: Gift | 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
Pencil (Object Lessons) by Carol Beggy
$19.99 AUD
Category: Gift | Series: Object Lessons Ser.
Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. A cylinder of baked graphite and clay in a wood case, the pencil creates as it is being destroyed. To love a pencil is to use it, to sharpen it, and to essentially destroy it. Pencils were used to ...Show more
Phone Booth (Object Lessons) by Christopher (EDT) Ian (EDT); Schaberg Ariana; Bogost Kelly
$19.99 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: Object Lessons
Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. The phone booth exists as a fond but distant memory for some people, and as a strange and dysfunctional waste of space for many more. Ariana Kelly approaches the phone booth as an entity that embod ...Show more
Remote Control (Object Lessons) by Caetlin Anne Benson-Allott
$24.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs | Series: Object Lessons
Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. While we all use remote controls, we understand little about their history or their impact on our daily lives. Caetlin Benson-Allot looks back on the remote control's material and cultural history ...Show more
Signature by Hunter Dukes; Christopher Schaberg (Series edited by); Ian Bogost (Series edited by)
$19.99 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: Object Lessons Ser.
Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. Why do we sign our names? How can a squiggle both enslave and liberate? Signatures often require a witness--as if the scrawl itself is not enough. What other kinds of beliefs and longings justify o ...Show more
Swimming Pool (Object Lessons) by Piotr Florczyk
$19.99 AUD
Category: Gift | Series: Object Lessons Ser.
Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. As a former world-ranked swimmer whose journey toward naturalization and U.S. citizenship began with a swimming fellowship, Piotr Florczyk reflects on his own adventures in swimming pools while ta ...Show more
TV: (Object Lessons) by Susan Bordo
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Category: Current Affairs | Series: Object Lessons Ser.
Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. Once upon a time, the news was only 15 minutes long and middle-class families huddled around a tiny black-and-white screen, TV dinners on their laps, awaiting the weekly showing of sitcoms that ...Show more