This book is an invitation to think about why children chew pencils; why we talk to our cars, our refrigerators, our computers; rosary beads and worry beads; Cuban cigars; why we no longer wear hats that we can tip to one another and why we don't seem to long to; what has been described as bourgeois longing. It is an invitation to think about the fetishism of daily life in diff...(展开全部)

From the pencil to the puppet to the drone—the humanities and the social sciences continue to ride a wave of interest in material culture and the world of things. How should we understand the force and figure of that wave as it shapes different disciplines? Other Things explores this question by considering a wide assortment of objects—from beach glass to cell phones, sneakers ...(展开全部)

"Shaping Things is about created objects and the environment, which is to say, it's about everything," writes Bruce Sterling in this addition to the Mediawork Pamphlet series. He adds, "Seen from sufficient distance, this is a small topic."Sterling offers a brilliant, often hilarious history of shaped things. We have moved from an age of artifacts, made by hand, through complex...(展开全部)

"Transparent Things revolves around the four visits of the hero--sullen, gawky Hugh Person--to Switzerland . . . As a young publisher, Hugh is sent to interview R., falls in love with Armande on the way, wrests her, after multiple humiliations, from a grinning Scandinavian and returns to NY with his bride. . . . Eight years later--following a murder, a period of madness and a b...(展开全部)

'Annie Ernaux's work', wrote Richard Bernstein in the "New York Times", 'represents a severely pared-down Proustianism, a testament to the persistent, haunting and melancholy quality of memory'. In the "New York Times Book Review", Kathryn Harrison concurred: 'Keen language and unwavering focus allow her to penetrate deep, to reveal pulses of love, desire, remorse'. In this 'jo...(展开全部)

'Annie Ernaux's work', wrote Richard Bernstein in the "New York Times", 'represents a severely pared-down Proustianism, a testament to the persistent, haunting and melancholy quality of memory'. In the "New York Times Book Review", Kathryn Harrison concurred: 'Keen language and unwavering focus allow her to penetrate deep, to reveal pulses of love, desire, remorse'. In this 'jo...(展开全部)

From the pencil to the puppet to the drone—the humanities and the social sciences continue to ride a wave of interest in material culture and the world of things. How should we understand the force and figure of that wave as it shapes different disciplines? Other Things explores this question by considering a wide assortment of objects—from beach glass to cell phones, sneakers ...(展开全部)

'Annie Ernaux's work', wrote Richard Bernstein in the "New York Times", 'represents a severely pared-down Proustianism, a testament to the persistent, haunting and melancholy quality of memory'. In the "New York Times Book Review", Kathryn Harrison concurred: 'Keen language and unwavering focus allow her to penetrate deep, to reveal pulses of love, desire, remorse'. In this 'jo...(展开全部)