Email (Paperback)

Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. Do you feel your consciousness, your attention, and your intelligence (not to mention your eyesight) being sucked away, byte by byte, in a deadening tsunami of ill-composed blather, corporate groupthink, commercial come-ons, and other meaningless internet flotsam? Do your work life and your social life, hideously conjoined in your inbox, drag each other down in a surreal cycle of neverending reposts, appointments, and deadlines? Sometime in the mid-1990s, we began, often with some trepidation, to enroll for a service that promised to connect us-electronically and efficiently-to our friends and lovers, our bosses and merchants. If it seemed at first like simply a change in scale (our mail would be faster, cheaper, more easily distributed to large groups), we now realize that email entails a more fundamental alteration in our communicative consciousness. Despite its fading relevance in the lives of the younger generation in the face of an ever-changing array of apps and media, email is probably here to stay, for better or worse. Object Lessons is published in partnership with an essay series in The Atlantic.

General

Imprint:	Bloomsbury Academic USA
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Object Lessons
Release date:	September 2019
Authors:	Randy Malamud
Dimensions:	165 x 121 x 18mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	160
ISBN-13:	978-1-5013-4190-8
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Interdisciplinary studies Books > Humanities > Philosophy Books > Computing & IT > Computer communications & networking Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary theory Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Interdisciplinary studies > Cultural studies Books > Humanities > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy Books > Computing & IT > Computer communications & networking > Electronic mail (email) Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Interdisciplinary studies > Cultural studies > General Books > Humanities > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Aesthetics Books > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy Books > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Aesthetics
LSN:	1-5013-4190-1
Barcode:	9781501341908

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