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Air Conditioning (Paperback)
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Air Conditioning (Paperback)
Series: Object Lessons
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Loot Price R257
Discovery Miles 2 570
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Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books
about the hidden lives of ordinary things. Air conditioning aspires
to be unnoticed. Yet, by manipulating the air around us, it quietly
conditions the baseline conditions of our physical, mental, and
emotional experience. From offices and libraries to contemporary
art museums and shopping malls, climate control systems shore up
the fantasy of a comfortable, self-contained body that does not
have to reckon with temperature. At the same time that air
conditioning makes temperature a non-issue in (some) people’s
daily lives, thermoception—or the sensory perception of
temperature—is being carefully studied and exploited as a tool of
marketing, social control, and labor management. Yet air
conditioning isn’t for everybody: its reliance on carbon fuels
divides the world into habitable, climate-controlled bubbles and
increasingly uninhabitable environments where AC is unavailable.
Hsuan Hsu's Air Conditioning explores questions about culture,
ethics, ecology, and social justice raised by the history and
uneven distribution of climate controlling technologies. Object
Lessons is published in partnership with an essay series in The
Atlantic.
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