11,95 €*
Versandkostenfrei per Post / DHL
auf Lager, Lieferzeit 1-2 Werktage
A cylinder of baked graphite and clay in a wood case, the pencil creates as it is being destroyed. To love a pencil is to use it, to sharpen it, and to essentially destroy it.
Pencils were used to sketch civilization's greatest works of art. Pencils were there marking the choices in the earliest democratic elections. Even when used haphazardly to mark out where a saw's blade should make a cut, a pencil is creating. Pencil offers a deep look at this common, almost ubiquitous, object.
Pencils are a simple device that are deceptively difficult to manufacture. At a time when many use cellphones as banking branches and instructors reach students online throughout the world, pencil use has not waned, with tens of millions being made and used annually. Carol Beggy sketches out how the lowly pencil is still a mighty useful tool.
Object Lessons is published in partnership with an essay series in The Atlantic.
A cylinder of baked graphite and clay in a wood case, the pencil creates as it is being destroyed. To love a pencil is to use it, to sharpen it, and to essentially destroy it.
Pencils were used to sketch civilization's greatest works of art. Pencils were there marking the choices in the earliest democratic elections. Even when used haphazardly to mark out where a saw's blade should make a cut, a pencil is creating. Pencil offers a deep look at this common, almost ubiquitous, object.
Pencils are a simple device that are deceptively difficult to manufacture. At a time when many use cellphones as banking branches and instructors reach students online throughout the world, pencil use has not waned, with tens of millions being made and used annually. Carol Beggy sketches out how the lowly pencil is still a mighty useful tool.
Object Lessons is published in partnership with an essay series in The Atlantic.
1. Variations on a Theme
2. Making Their Mark
3. Tools of the Trade
4. People and Their Pencils
5. To Boldly Go
6. Collectors Versus Users
7. Pencils in the Wild
8. A Thoreau Job
9. Pencils Up
10. #FindYourPeople
Afterword
NotesAcknowledgmentsSelected Bibliography and Suggested Further ReadingIndex
| Erscheinungsjahr: | 2024 |
|---|---|
| Genre: | Allgemeine Lexika |
| Rubrik: | Literaturwissenschaft |
| Medium: | Taschenbuch |
| Reihe: | Object Lessons |
| ISBN-13: | 9781501392245 |
| ISBN-10: | 1501392247 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Einband: | Klappenbroschur |
| Autor: | Beggy, Carol |
| Redaktion: |
Bogost, Ian
Schaberg, Christopher |
| Hersteller: | Bloomsbury Academic |
| Maße: | 164 x 122 x 13 mm |
| Von/Mit: | Carol Beggy |
| Erscheinungsdatum: | 08.02.2024 |
| Gewicht: | 0,148 kg |
1. Variations on a Theme
2. Making Their Mark
3. Tools of the Trade
4. People and Their Pencils
5. To Boldly Go
6. Collectors Versus Users
7. Pencils in the Wild
8. A Thoreau Job
9. Pencils Up
10. #FindYourPeople
Afterword
NotesAcknowledgmentsSelected Bibliography and Suggested Further ReadingIndex
| Erscheinungsjahr: | 2024 |
|---|---|
| Genre: | Allgemeine Lexika |
| Rubrik: | Literaturwissenschaft |
| Medium: | Taschenbuch |
| Reihe: | Object Lessons |
| ISBN-13: | 9781501392245 |
| ISBN-10: | 1501392247 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Einband: | Klappenbroschur |
| Autor: | Beggy, Carol |
| Redaktion: |
Bogost, Ian
Schaberg, Christopher |
| Hersteller: | Bloomsbury Academic |
| Maße: | 164 x 122 x 13 mm |
| Von/Mit: | Carol Beggy |
| Erscheinungsdatum: | 08.02.2024 |
| Gewicht: | 0,148 kg |
Ähnliche Produkte
Lieferzeit 1-2 Wochen
Lieferzeit 1-2 Wochen
Aktuell nicht verfügbar
Aktuell nicht verfügbar
Lieferzeit 1-2 Werktage
Lieferzeit 1-2 Wochen