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Ordinary Lives - Studies in the Everyday (Paperback)
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Ordinary Lives - Studies in the Everyday (Paperback)
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This new study from Ben Highmore looks at the seemingly banal world
of objects, work, daily media, and food, and finds there a
scintillating array of passionate experience. Through a series of
case studies, and building on his previous work on the everyday,
Highmore examines our relationship to familiar objects (a favourite
chair), repetitive work (housework, typing), media (distracted
television viewing and radio listening) and food (specifically the
food of multicultural Britain). A chair allows him to consider the
history of flat-pack furniture as well as the lively presence of
inorganic 'stuff' in our daily lives. Distracted television
watching and radio listening becomes one of the preconditions for
experiencing wonder through the media. Ordinary Lives links the
concrete study of routine existence to theoretical reflection on
everyday life. The book discusses philosophers such as Jacques
Ranciere, William James and David Hume and combines them with
autobiographical testimonies, historical research and the analysis
of popular culture to investigate the minutiae of day-to-day life.
Highmore argues that aesthetic experience is embedded in the
mundane sensory world of everyday life. He asks the reader to
reconsider the negative associations of habit and routine, focusing
specifically on the intrinsic ambiguity of habit (habit, we find
out, is both rigid and adaptive). Rather than ask 'what does
everyday life mean?' this book asks 'what does everyday life feel
like and how do our sensual, emotional and temporal experiences
interconnect and intersect?' Ordinary Lives is an accessible,
animated and engaging book that is ideally suited to both students
and researchers working in cultural studies, media and
communication and sociology.
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