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Fake (Object Lessons) by Kati Stevens; Ian Bogost (Series edited by); Christopher Schaberg (Series edited by)
Category: Philosophy | Series: Object Lessons Ser.
Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. The electric candle and faux fur, coffee substitutes and meat analogues, Obama impersonators, prosthetics. Imitation this, false that. Humans have been replacing and improving upon the real thing f ...Show more
Fat (Object Lessons) by Hanne Blank; Christopher Schaberg (Series edited by); Ian Bogost (Series edited by)
Category: Sexual Health | Series: Object Lessons Ser.
Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. Public enemy. Crucial macronutrient. Health risk. Punchline. Moneymaker. Epidemic. Sexual fetish. Moral failing. Necessary bodily organ. Conveyor of flavor. Freak-show spectacle. Never mind the ...Show more
Gin (Object Lessons) by Shonna Milliken Humphrey; Christopher Schaberg (Series edited by); Ian Bogost (Series edited by)
Category: Drinks | Series: Object Lessons Ser.
Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.Gin tastes like Christmas to some and rotten pine chips to others, but nearly everyone familiar with the spirit holds immediate gin nostalgia.Although early medical textbooks treated it as a healing ...Show more
Glitter (Object Lessons) by Nicole Seymour; Christopher Schaberg (Series edited by); Ian Bogost (Series edited by)
Category: Art | Series: Object Lessons Ser.
Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.Glitter reveals the complexity of an object often dismissed as frivolous. Nicole Seymour describes how glitter's consumption and status have shifted across centuries-from ancient cosmetic to queer a ...Show more
Hashtag (Object Lessons) by Elizabeth Losh; Christopher Schaberg (Series edited by); Ian Bogost (Series edited by)
Category: Philosophy and Religion | Series: Object Lessons Ser.
Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.Hashtags silence as well as shout. They originate in the quiet of the archive and the breathless suspense of the control room, as well as in the roar of rallies in the streets. The #hashtag is a com ...Show more
High Heel (Object Lessons) by Summer Brennan; Christopher Schaberg (Contribution by); Ian Bogost (Contribution by)
Category: Fashion | Series: Object Lessons Ser.
Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. Fetishized, demonized, celebrated, and outlawed, the high heel is central to the iconography of modern womanhood. But are high heels good? Are they feminist? What does it mean for a woman (or, for ...Show more
Hyphen (Object Lessons) by Pardis Mahdavi; Christopher Schaberg (Series edited by); Ian Bogost (Series edited by)
Category: Languages and Reference | Series: Object Lessons Ser.
Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. To hyphenate or not to hyphenate has been a central point of controversy since before the imprinting of the first Gutenberg Bible. And yet, the hyphen has persisted, bringing and bridging new w ...Show more
Magazine (Object Lessons series) by Jeff Jarvis; Ian Bogost (Series edited by); Christopher Schaberg (Series edited by)
Category: General Design | Series: Object Lessons Ser.
Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.For a century, magazines were the authors of culture and taste, of intelligence and policy - until they were overthrown by the voices of the public themselves online. Here is a tribute to all that m ...Show more
Magnet (Object Lessons) by Eva K. Barbarossa; Christopher Schaberg (Series edited by); Ian Bogost (Series edited by)
Category: Politics | Series: Object Lessons Ser.
Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. For over two thousand years magnets have inspired tales of myth, magic, exploration, science, and art. From the physical to the metaphorical, our language is littered with magnetic allusions: magn ...Show more
Ocean (Object Lessons) by Steve Mentz
Category: Animals & Nature | 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
Office (Object Lessons) by Sheila Liming; Christopher Schaberg (Series edited by); Ian Bogost (Series edited by)
Category: Philosophy | Series: Object Lessons Ser.
Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. From its origins in the late 19th century to its decline in the 21st, Sheila Liming's Office narrates a cultural history of a place that has arguably been the primary site of labor in the postm ...Show more
Pencil (Object Lessons) by Carol Beggy
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