Phone Booth (Object Lessons)By Ariana Kelly
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Phone Booth (Object Lessons)By Ariana Kelly
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Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.
The phone booth exists as a fond but distant memory for some people, and as a strange and dysfunctional waste of space for many more. Ariana Kelly approaches the phone booth as an entity that embodies diverse attitudes about privacy, freedom, power, sanctuary, and communication in its various forms all around the world. Through portrayals of phone booths in literature, film, personal narrative, philosophy, and religion, Phone Booth offers a definitive account of an object on the cusp of obsolescence.
Object Lessons is published in partnership with an essay series in The Atlantic.
Phone Booth (Object Lessons)By Ariana Kelly- Amazon Sales Rank: #624347 in Books
- Published on: 2015-09-24
- Released on: 2015-09-24
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 6.57" h x .49" w x 4.79" l, .35 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 160 pages
Review
"In this delightful set of mini-essays, Ariana Kelly has created a paen, rather than an elegy, in celebration of the many dimensions of the vanishing phone booth. Her text gleans images and sensations from our collective memory of the once (if briefly) ubiquitous structure. Site of superhero transformations, crimes, communications, quick changes, and other coins of the social realm, the phone booth and the kiosk served as small theaters of intimate activity in full view of the public eye, a curious combination of enclosed and exposed space. She shifts scale from the minutiae of physical observation-hanging wires and scratched glass-to the larger cultural issues of communication and longing, mixing personal experience with historical, literary, and film references throughout." ―Johanna Drucker, Professor of Information Studies, University of California, Los Angeles, USA
"Fascinated and attuned, I was cabled into Phone Booth. Ariana Kelly replenishes the work on speculative telephony in an altogether compelling way." ―Avital Ronell, University Professor in the Humanities, New York University, USA, and author of The Telephone Book
"The Object Lessons series achieves something very close to magic: the books take ordinary―even banal―objects and animate them with a rich history of invention, political struggle, science, and popular mythology. Filled with fascinating details and conveyed in sharp, accessible prose, the books make the everyday world come to life. Be warned: once you've read a few of these, you'll start walking around your house, picking up random objects, and musing aloud: 'I wonder what the story is behind this thing?'"―Steven Johnson, best-selling author of How We Got to Now: Six Innovations That Made the Modern World
"The Object Lessons project, edited by game theory legend Ian Bogost and cultural studies academic Christopher Schaberg, commissions short essays and small, beautiful books about everyday objects from shipping containers to toast. The Atlantic hosts a collection of "mini object-lessons", brief essays that take a deeper look at things we generally only glance upon ('Is bread toast only insofar as a human toaster perceives it to be "done?" Is bread toast when it reaches some specific level of nonenzymatic browning?'). More substantive is Bloomsbury's collection of small, gorgeously designed books that delve into their subjects in much more depth." ―Cory Doctorow, Boing Boing
About the Author Ariana Kelly is a freelance writer and educator. She teaches English literature and comparative religion at the Harvard-Westlake School in Los Angeles, California, USA, and has written for, among other publications, The L.A. Review of Books and Salon.
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Most helpful customer reviews
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. Clark Kent is only one piece of the story ... By JohnSF I found this book fascinating. On the one hand, it's both a history of the phone booth -- how it evolved as a technology and became ubiquitous, only to begin to disappear (or will it?). On the other hand, the book is a cultural analysis -- examining how the phone booth has played a captivating role in our imaginations in films like The Matrix and in the origin of Superman. The book moves at a quick pace. It's filled with scenes and descriptions that will show you a whole new story about the phone booth.Highly recommended!
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. A Fitting Elegy for a Vanishing Icon By C. Dickey A fantastic history of a vanishing cultural icon. By turns informative, elegiac, playful and provocative, Kelly's book makes plain just how integral this simple object has been to our domestic and public spaces since the early 20th century. At the same time, she makes it clear just how far we've changed that such a thing is no longer. Filled with questions of privacy and longing, and thoroughly enjoyable throughout, this is easily one of the best books of nonfiction I've read this year.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. Five Stars By Amazon Customer Very fun and informative read! Great insights into the history and lore of the phone booth. Highly recommended.
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