Email: Object Lessons - Softcover

Malamud, Professor Randy

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1501341901 ISBN 13: 9781501341908

Verlag: Bloomsbury Academic, 2019

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To examine our emails is to examine our lives: our inboxes are anthropological goldmines, waiting to be plumbed and probed for the expansive cultural, ethical, behavioral lessons they hold.

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Randy Malamud is Regents' Professor of English at Georgia State University, USA. He is the author of 12 books, including the influential Reading Zoos: Representations of Animals and Captivity (NYU Press, 1998), The Importance of Elsewhere: The Globalist Humanist Tourist (Intellect, 2018), and Strange Bright Blooms: A History of Cut Flowers (Reaktion, 2021). He writes about film, travel, ecocriticism, and culture for the Chronicle of Higher Education, Times Higher Education, Film Quarterly, Senses of Cinema, Film International, Common Knowledge, Salon, Huffington Post, The Conversation, and truthout. He has been interviewed about his books on NPR, BBC, CNN, and numerous podcasts. He is a Fellow of the Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics.

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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.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Academic
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2019
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1501341901
• ISBN 13: 9781501341908
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 184
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