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Alarm (Paperback)
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Alarm (Paperback)
Series: Object Lessons
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Loot Price R287
Discovery Miles 2 870
You Save R87 (23%)
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Object 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.
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