John S. Garrison

Glass (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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. It reflects and refracts light through your windows; it encircles a glowing filament above you; it's in a mirror hanging on the wall; it lies shattered in a dented corner of an iPhone-you're drinking water out of a pint glass. Taking up a most common object, rarely considered because assumed to be transparent, John Garrison draws evocative connections between historical depictions of glass and emerging visions that see it as holding a unique promise for new forms of interaction. Grounded in everyday examples, this book offers a series of surprising insights into how we increasingly find ourselves living in a world made of glass.

Object Lessons is published in partnership with an essay series in The Atlantic.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing Inc
• Seitenzahl: 160
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. September 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781628924282
• Artikelnr.: 48421703

Autorenporträt

John S. Garrison is a writer living in Los Angeles. He is the author of seven books, which explore the intersections of community, desire, identity, memory, and queer history. During the 1990s, he worked for the San Francisco AIDS Foundation, and in 2021, he was named a Guggenheim Fellow.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface"A Day Made of Glass"MacbethMinority ReportMicroscopic VisionTelescopic VisionEarrings and LandscapesPhotographyShakespeare's Sonnets"Heart of Glass"Sea GlassGoogle GlassTrademarkMicrosoft HoloLensStrange DaysA Glass, DarklySurfaces"A World of Glass"Postscript: What's in My Pocket?Further ReadingAcknowledgementsNotesIndex

Rezensionen

[Glass] distills the essence of a substance that offers itself as something to be looked through, giving a shine to its contents, and as something that occupies our view, as something we have to take note of and interact with. Julian Yates Los Angeles Review of Books