Alarm Paperback / softback
by Dr. Alice (Senior Lecturer in English Literature, Liverpool Hope University, UK) Bennett
Part of the Object Lessons series
Paperback / softback
Description
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.
Theytake 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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Only a few left - usually despatched within 24 hours
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:152 pages
- Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
- Publication Date:23/02/2023
- Category:
- ISBN:9781501375576
Information
-
Only a few left - usually despatched within 24 hours
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:152 pages
- Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
- Publication Date:23/02/2023
- Category:
- ISBN:9781501375576
