@contents: Selected Contents: Acknowledgements Permissions Preface Chapter 1. Introduction Chapter 2. Everyday Aesthetics I. Enlightenment Aesthetics II. John Dewey and the Grain of Experience III. Jacques Rancière and the Distribution of the Sensible Chapter 3. Familiar Things Chapter 4. Doing Time: Work Life Chapter 5. Absentminded Media Chapter 6. Senses of the Ordinary Chapter 7. Conclusion: Towards a political aesthetics of everyday life Bibliography Index
Biography
Ben Highmore is Reader in Media and Cultural Studies at the University of Sussex, UK. He is the author of A Passion for Cultural Studies (2009), Michel de Certeau: Analysing Culture (2006), Cityscapes: Cultural Readings in the Material and Symbolic City (2005), Everyday Life and Cultural Theory (2002) and The Everyday Life Reader (2002).
Ben Highmore’s Ordinary Lives is a groundbreaking intervention into the burgeoning field of everyday life studies. It takes contemporary cultural studies into some exciting new critical directions [...] Highmore’s book is digressive but always coherent, deeply personal but always scholarly, entertaining and evocative but always rigorous and thought-provoking – Joe Moran, Reader in Cultural History, Liverpool John Moores University, UK
'"Ordinary Lives", in its refusal to engage with 'The Media', provides a clear and politically important framework for us to use with students to help draw 'microsketches of ordinary media reception'.' - POV
