$19.98
- Paperback
184 pages
- Release Date
19 September 2019
Summary
Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.
Sometime in the mid-1990s we began, often with some trepidation, to enroll for a service that promised to connect us–electronically and efficiently–to our friends and lovers, our bosses and clients. If it seemed at first like simply a change in scale (our mail would be faster, cheaper, more easily distributed to large groups), we now realize that email entails a more fundamental …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781501341908 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1501341901 |
| Author: | Professor Randy Malamud, Randy Malamud |
| Publisher: | Bloomsbury Publishing Plc |
| Imprint: | Bloomsbury Academic |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 184 |
| Release Date: | 19 September 2019 |
| Weight: | 171g |
| Dimensions: | 16mm x 120mm x 164mm |
| Series: | Object Lessons |
Critics Review
This involving and innovative volume’s aggregation of ephemera will no doubt delight the social historian … The snappy prose and keen engagement help pull together the text into an engaging and successful snapshot of collective experience. * Times Higher Education *
In this slyly subversive little book, part rhapsody, part diatribe, Randy Malamud can’t leave e-mail alone. His exuberant rants and riffs give us a new perspective on our infernal electronic inboxes. A fast, funny, compulsive read. * Mikita Brottman, Professor of Humanistic Studies, Maryland Institute College of Art, USA, and author of An Unexplained Death: The True Story of a Body at the Belvedere (2018) and The Maximum Security Book Club: Reading Literature in a Men’s Prison (2016) *
Professor Randy Malamud
Randy Malamud is Regents’ Professor of English at Georgia State University in Atlanta. He is the author of ten books, including Reading Zoos (1998) and An Introduction to Animals and Visual Culture (2012). He has written for HuffPost, Salon, Film Quarterly, Chicago Sun-Times, and the Los Angeles Times and has appeared on CNN, BBC, and NPR.
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