Billed as books about 'the hidden lives of ordinary things,' there are 10 so far, and every one a curiosity not just an object, but a world in and of itself.'- Los Angeles Review of Books

'They are beautiful: elegant paperbacks, the quality kind, with front and back flaps, not quite pocket-sized but easily transportable, each coming in at under 200 pages, each inspired by an object. Earth - Jeffrey Jerome Cohen and Lindy Elkins-Tanton.Christopher Schaberg – Loyola University New Orleans.Ian Bogost – Georgia Institute of Technology.As stated in the Object Lessons webpage, 'Each Object Lessons project will start from a specific inspiration: an anthropological query, ecological matter, archeological discovery, historical event, literary passage, personal narrative, philosophical speculation, technological innovation-and from there develop original insights and novel lessons about the object in question.' Series publishers Each of the essays (2,000 words) and the books (25,000 words) investigate a single object through a variety of approaches that often reveal something unexpected about that object.

He lives in Ontario, Canada.Object Lessons is 'an essay and book series about the hidden lives of ordinary things'. Stephen Lee Naish is a writer and author of several books on the subjects of film and popular culture.

She was previously a contributing writer for the Boston Globe's Ideas section, a columnist for the urban affairs website Next City, and a Journalism and Media Fellow at the UCLA Institute of the Environment and Sustainability. Her writing has appeared in Slate, The Nation, The New York Times Book Review, the Los Angeles Review of Books, and Dissent, where she is a contributing editor. Rebecca Tuhus-Dubrow is a writer-in-residence at the University of California, Irvine. All this is channeled through a personal nostalgic affection for the device. Rebecca Tuhus-Dubrow's book, Personal Stereo ( Bloomsbury Academic, 2017), which is part of the Object Lessons series, offers a compelling and expertly researched study of the Sony Walkman, taking into account the device's controversial origin story, the seismic cultural impact on society in the 1980s, the worries of diminishing social interactions, and the philosophical implications of listening to music within one's own private bubble.

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