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John S. Garrison Glass (Paperback) Object Lessons (UK IMPORT)
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Item specifics
- Book Title
- Glass
- Publication Name
- Glass
- Title
- Glass
- Format
- Paperback
- ISBN-10
- 1628924241
- EAN
- 9781628924244
- ISBN
- 9781628924244
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Academic & Professional
- Genre
- Literary Criticism
- Topic
- Glass & Glassware, Materials Science / General, Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Aesthetics, Semiotics & Theory
- Release Date
- 05/11/2015
- Release Year
- 2015
- Language
- English
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- US
- Item Height
- 165mm
- Item Length
- 121mm
- Item Weight
- 136g
- Series
- Object Lessons
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Product Information
Pause and look, and you will see that you are surrounded by glass: light reflects off and refracts 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, this book draws evocative connections between historical depictions of glass and emergent discourses within the technology sector that envision glass as holding unique promise for new forms of interaction. Grounded in examples familiar to most readers, this book offers a series of surprising-often counter-intuitive-insights into how we see the world and see ourselves in the world.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Bloomsbury Academic & Professional
ISBN-10
1628924241
ISBN-13
9781628924244
eBay Product ID (ePID)
204224092
Product Key Features
Language
English
Topic
Glass & Glassware, Materials Science / General, Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Aesthetics, Semiotics & Theory
Dimensions
Item Length
7.5in
Item Height
0.5in
Item Width
4.9in
Item Weight
4.7 Oz
Additional Product Features
Book Title
Glass
Lc Classification Number
Ta450.G38 2015
Reviews
"This brilliant book takes us through the looking glass, allowing us to see an everyday material in a whole new light. Glass, no matter how transparent it may seem, is always coated with many layers of meaning. In this scintillating account, John Garrison shows how the cultural framing of glass has repeatedly opened windows to other worlds, from the microscopic depths to the far reaches of the cosmos, from the imagined futures of science fiction to the bizarro-worlds of our own bathroom mirrors." -- Colin Milburn, Professor of English and Science and Technology Studies, University of California Davis, USA "The Object Lessons series achieves something very close to magic: the books take ordinary--even banal--objects and animate them with a rich history of invention, political struggle, science, and popular mythology. Filled with fascinating details and conveyed in sharp, accessible prose, the books make the everyday world come to life. Be warned: once you've read a few of these, you'll start walking around your house, picking up random objects, and musing aloud: 'I wonder what the story is behind this thing?'"-- Steven Johnson, best-selling author of How We Got to Now: Six Innovations That Made the Modern World "The Object Lessons project, edited by game theory legend Ian Bogost and cultural studies academic Christopher Schaberg, commissions short essays and small, beautiful books about everyday objects from shipping containers to toast. The Atlantic hosts a collection of "mini object-lessons", brief essays that take a deeper look at things we generally only glance upon ('Is bread toast only insofar as a human toaster perceives it to be "done?" Is bread toast when it reaches some specific level of nonenzymatic browning?'). More substantive is Bloomsbury's collection of small, gorgeously designed books that delve into their subjects in much more depth." --Cory Doctorow, Boing Boing, "This brilliant book takes us through the looking glass, allowing us to see an everyday material in a whole new light. Glass, no matter how transparent it may seem, is always coated with many layers of meaning. In this scintillating account, John Garrison shows how the cultural framing of glass has repeatedly opened windows to other worlds, from the microscopic depths to the far reaches of the cosmos, from the imagined futures of science fiction to the bizarro-worlds of our own bathroom mirrors." -- Colin Milburn, Professor of English and Science and Technology Studies, University of California Davis, USA, This brilliant book takes us through the looking glass, allowing us to see an everyday material in a whole new light. Glass, no matter how transparent it may seem, is always coated with many layers of meaning. In this scintillating account, John Garrison shows how the cultural framing of glass has repeatedly opened windows to other worlds, from the microscopic depths to the far reaches of the cosmos, from the imagined futures of science fiction to the bizarro-worlds of our own bathroom mirrors., "[ Glass ] distills the essence of a substance that offers itself as something to be looked through, giving a shine to its contents, and as something that occupies our view, as something we have to take note of and interact with." --Julian Yates, Los Angeles Review of Books "[A] book that can be read in a fascinated hour, but will influence your reading and your looking for the next month." -- Times Literary Supplement "This brilliant book takes us through the looking glass, allowing us to see an everyday material in a whole new light. Glass, no matter how transparent it may seem, is always coated with many layers of meaning. In this scintillating account, John Garrison shows how the cultural framing of glass has repeatedly opened windows to other worlds, from the microscopic depths to the far reaches of the cosmos, from the imagined futures of science fiction to the bizarro-worlds of our own bathroom mirrors." -- Colin Milburn, Professor of English and Science and Technology Studies, University of California Davis, USA
Table of Content
Preface "A Day Made of Glass" Macbeth Minority Report Microscopic Vision Telescopic Vision Earrings and Landscapes Photography Shakespeare's Sonnets "Heart of Glass" Sea Glass Google Glass Trademark Microsoft HoloLens Strange Days A Glass, Darkly Surfaces "A World of Glass" Postscript: What's in My Pocket? Further Reading Acknowledgements Notes Index
Copyright Date
2015
Format
Trade Paperback
Lccn
2015-011014
Dewey Decimal
620.1/44
Intended Audience
Trade
Series
Object Lessons Ser.
Publication Year
2015
Dewey Edition
23
Illustrated
Yes
Genre
Technology & Engineering, Antiques & Collectibles, Literary Criticism, Social Science, Philosophy
Number of Pages
136 Pages
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