Object Lessons

Remote Control

Caetlin Benson-Allott

While we all use remote controls, we understand little about their history or their impact on our daily lives. Caetlin Benson-Allot looks back on the remote control’s material and cultural…

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Golf Ball

Dr. Harry Brown

Golf balls embody the complex human relation to the natural world, a will to control nature, but the action of balls in play reveals the futility of the endeavor –

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Drone

Adam Rothstein

Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.

Drones are in the newspaper, on the TV screen, swarming through the networks…

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Driver’s License

Meredith Castile

A lively exploration of how the driver’s license encapsulates the contradictory values of contemporary culture and identity, and especially freedom and security, mobility and restriction –

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Hotel

Joanna Walsh (Writer and Illustrator, UK)

Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.

During the breakdown of an unhappy marriage, writer Joanna Walsh got a job…

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Refrigerator

Professor Jonathan Rees (Colorado State University - Pueblo, USA)

Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.

It may be responsible for a greater improvement in human diet and longevity…

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Silence

John Biguenet (Loyola University, New Orleans, USA)

Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.

What is silence? In a series of short meditations, novelist and playwright John…

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Phone Booth

Ariana Kelly (Harvard-Westlake School, USA)

Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.

The phone booth exists as a fond but distant memory for some people…

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Glass

Professor John S. Garrison (Grinnell College, USA)

Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.

Pause and look around: you will see that you are surrounded by glass…

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Waste

Dr. Brian Thill (Golden West College, USA)

Waste explores the question: from nuclear waste to digital detritus, what can we learn about ourselves from what we let go to waste?

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Shipping Container

Dr. Craig Martin (University of Edinburgh, UK)

Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.

The shipping container is all around: whizzing by on the highway, trundling past…

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Bookshelf

Lydia Pyne (University of Texas of Austin, USA)

Shows that, whether in the library, office, or home, the bookshelf is where and how we create categories to sort knowledge and experience and that every bookshelf tells a different…

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Hood

Alison Kinney (Freelance Writer, New York, USA)

A popular, personal, historical take on a singular garment and its myriad associations with death, violence, and identity.

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Cigarette Lighter

Jack Pendarvis (Freelance Writer, USA)

An eclectic and poetic exploration of the cigarette lighter and its association with romance, magic, art, science, immortality and death in literature and popular culture –

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Object Lessons

Remote Control

Golf Ball

Drone

Driver’s License

Hotel

Refrigerator

Silence

Phone Booth

Glass

Waste

Shipping Container

Bookshelf

Hood

Cigarette Lighter