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PublisherBloomsbury Publishing
ISBN-101501375571
ISBN-139781501375576
eBay Product ID (ePID)24057254127
Product Key Features
Book TitleAlarm
Number of Pages152 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2023
TopicGeneral, Aesthetics, Semiotics & Theory, Acoustics & Sound
GenreLiterary Criticism, Philosophy, Technology & Engineering, Psychology
AuthorAlice Bennett
Book SeriesObject Lessons Ser.
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.6 in
Item Weight5.1 Oz
Item Length6.5 in
Item Width4.7 in
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Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN2022-022667
ReviewsBy revealing the uncanny ubiquity of alarms in our daily life, by making us smile about their profound ambivalence, Alice Bennett has written a pleasurable and soothing book. From burglary to belatedness, from house fires to climate change, this exemplary collaboration between literary studies and the social sciences sheds a reflexive, nuanced and joyful light on our darker anxieties. A most accessible, elegant and important lesson in attention ecology., "By revealing the uncanny ubiquity of alarms in our daily life, by making us smile about their profound ambivalence, Alice Bennett has written a pleasurable and soothing book. From burglary to belatedness, from house fires to climate change, this exemplary collaboration between literary studies and the social sciences sheds a reflexive, nuanced and joyful light on our darker anxieties. A most accessible, elegant and important lesson in attention ecology." -- Yves Citton, Professor in Literature and Media, University Paris 8, France, and author of The Ecology of Attention
Dewey Edition23
Dewey Decimal152.15
Table Of ContentList of Illustrations Introduction 1. Clock 2. Fire 3. Security 4. Siren 5. Failure, False, Fatigue 6. Future Image Credits Notes Index
SynopsisObject Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. Alarms are alarming. They wake us up, demand our attention and force us to attend to things we've preferred to ignore. But alarms also allow us to feel secure, to sleep and to retreat from alertness. They take over vigilance on our behalf. From the alarm clock and the air-raid siren to the doorbell and the phone alert, the history of alarms is also the history of work, security, technology and emotion. Alarm responds to culture's most urgent calls to attention by examining all kinds of alarms, from the restless presence of the alarm clock in modernist art to the siren - the sound of the police - in classic hip hop. More than just bells and whistles, alarms are objects that have defined sleeping and waking, safety and danger, and they have fundamentally shaped our understanding of the mind and its capacity for attention. Object Lessons is published in partnership with an essay series in The Atlantic.
LC Classification NumberBF205.N6B45 2023
