346 Pages
by
Routledge
346 Pages
82 Color Illustrations
by
Routledge
346 Pages
82 Color Illustrations
by
Routledge
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This book deploys literature to explore the social lives of objects and places. The first book of its kind, it embraces things as diverse as escalators, coins, skyscrapers, pottery, radios, and robots, and encompasses places as various as home, country, cities, streets, and parks. Here, fiction, poetry, and literary non-fiction are mined for stories of design, which are paired with images of... Read more
Chapter One - Culture: Identity, Displacement, Exile; Chapter Two - Politics: Prosecution, Obfuscation, Possibility; Chapter Three - Beings: Unruly Things, Golems, Cyborgs; Chapter Four - Technology: Connections, Disruptions, Amplifications; Chapter Five - Domesticity: Cleaning, Mending, Caring; Chapter Six - Consuming: Shopping, Collecting, Hoarding; Chapter Seven - Sensing: Perceptions, Vibrations, Visions; Chapter Eight - Mortality: Death, Burial, Resurrection
Biography
Susan Yelavich is Professor Emerita, Design Studies, Parsons School of Design, The New School. NYC.
