Rust: Object Lessons - Softcover

Jean-Michel Rabaté

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1501329499 ISBN 13: 9781501329494

Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic, 2018

Synopsis

Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. Rust: its happening all the time, all around us. We cover it up. We ignore it. Jean-Michel Rabatés Rust takes on the multitudinous meanings that this oxidized substance can hold, and shows how technology can bleed into biology and ecology. Rust blends eco-criticism with a post-Benjaminian allegorization of technology, ranging across art, autobiography, and science studies to explore the authors own fascination for peeling paints and rusty metal sheets as the interpenetration between the organic and the inorganic. Object Lessons is published in partnership with an essay series in The Atlantic.

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About the Author

Jean-Michel Rabaté is one of the world's foremost literary theorists. He is Professor of English and Comparative Literature and the Vartan Gregorian Professor in the Humanities at the University of Pennsylvania, USA. Rabaté has authored or edited more than thirty books on modernism, psychoanalysis, contemporary art, philosophy, and writers like Beckett, Pound and Joyce. Recent books include 1913: The cradle of modernism (2007), and The Ethic of the Lie (2008), and The Ghosts of Modernity and The Future of Theory. He is of the founders and curators of Slought Foundation in Philadelphia (slought.org) and the Managing Editor of the Journal of Modern Literature. Since 2008, he has been a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He is currently the president of the American Samuel Beckett Studies Association.

From the Back Cover

Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. The burger, long the All-American meal, is undergoing an identity crisis. From its shifting place in popular culture to the efforts, by investors such as Bill Gates, to seek to find the non-animal burger that can feed the world, the burgers identity has become as malleable as that patty of protein, itself, before it is thrown on a grill. Carol Adamss Burger is a fast-paced and eclectic exploration of the history, business, cultural dynamics and gender politics of the ordinary hamburger. Object Lessons is published in partnership with an essay series in The Atlantic.

Edition details

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Publication date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1501329499
• ISBN 13: 9781501329494
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 160