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Beschreibung
Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.

No matter how much you fight against it, dust pervades everything. It gathers in even layers, adapting to the contours of things and marking the passage of time. In itself, it is also a gathering place, a random community of what has been and what is yet to be, a catalog of traces and a set of promises: dead skin cells and plant pollen, hair and paper fibers, not to mention dust mites who make it their home. And so, dust blurs the boundaries between the living and the dead, plant and animal matter, the inside and the outside, you and the world ("for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return"). This book treats one of the most mundane and familiar phenomena, showing how it can provide a key to thinking about existence, community, and justice today.

Object Lessons is published in partnership with an essay series in The Atlantic.
Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.

No matter how much you fight against it, dust pervades everything. It gathers in even layers, adapting to the contours of things and marking the passage of time. In itself, it is also a gathering place, a random community of what has been and what is yet to be, a catalog of traces and a set of promises: dead skin cells and plant pollen, hair and paper fibers, not to mention dust mites who make it their home. And so, dust blurs the boundaries between the living and the dead, plant and animal matter, the inside and the outside, you and the world ("for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return"). This book treats one of the most mundane and familiar phenomena, showing how it can provide a key to thinking about existence, community, and justice today.

Object Lessons is published in partnership with an essay series in The Atlantic.
Über den Autor
Michael Marder is Ikerbasque Research Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of the Basque Country, Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain. He is the Associate Editor of Telos: A Quarterly Journal of Critical Thought and the author of Pyropolitics: When the World Is Ablaze (2015) and The Event of The Thing: Derrida's Post-Deconstructive Realism (2009).
Zusammenfassung
Explores all aspects of dust, from the cosmic to the household variety, showing it in a new, grander light
Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Dusting
2. A Phenomenology of Dust
3. Being, Dust, and Time
4. Allergic Reactions
5. A Community of Remnants
6. Just Dust
7. DustArt
Notes
Index

Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2016
Genre: Geschichte, Importe
Rubrik: Geisteswissenschaften
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: 129 S.
ISBN-13: 9781628925586
ISBN-10: 1628925582
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Marder, Michael
Redaktion: Bogost, Ian
Schaberg, Christopher
Hersteller: Bloomsbury Academic
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Petersen Buchimport GmbH, Vertrieb, Weidestr. 122a, D-22083 Hamburg, gpsr@petersen-buchimport.com
Maße: 165 x 121 x 17 mm
Von/Mit: Michael Marder
Erscheinungsdatum: 28.01.2016
Gewicht: 0,136 kg
Artikel-ID: 104703219