Jet Lag: Object Lessons - Softcover

Lee, Dr. Christopher J.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1501323229 ISBN 13: 9781501323225

Verlag: Bloomsbury Academic, 2017

Inhaltsangabe

Tracing physiological, temporal, technological, and cultural meanings, Christopher J. Lee's Jet Lag ponders our intrinsic human limits in the face of modern innovation.

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Christopher J. Lee is an associate professor of history at Lafayette College, USA. He has published four previous books and travels frequently. His writing has appeared in Foreign Policy, Chronicle of Higher Education, Christian Science Monitor, Africa is a Country, The Point (Chicago), and the Mail & Guardian (South Africa).

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Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. What exactly is jet lag? And, more importantly, how do we live with jet lag? Christopher J. Lee's book introduces jet lag as an object of study, tracing medical, temporal, and technological approaches for understanding this strange, hidden cost of our populist cosmopolitanism today. Drawing upon personal experience and an array of cultural registers, Jet Lag considers this present-day Icarian experience to be an allegory of our intrinsic human limits in the face of modern technological change. Jet lag is revealed to be an unavoidable discomfort, an existential condition that is the result of the human body and its inner clock being pitched against the time-leaping effects of modern aviation technologies.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Academic
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2017
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1501323229
• ISBN 13: 9781501323225
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 200
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: EDITIONS GALLIMARD; ufficio.anagrafiche@meli.it; ; Via Verdi, 8.; Assago Milano; 20090; Italien