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Alarm
Series: Object Lessons
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Alarm is ideal for readers interested in arts and culture, especially those curious about the hidden significance of everyday objects and how they influence modern life and thought.
"A book that invites you to listen more closely to the beepers, bells, and buzzers that have shaped modern minds"--
A book that invites you to listen more closely to the beepers, bells, and buzzers that have shaped modern minds.
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Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.
Alarms are alarming. They wake us up, demand our attention and force us to attend to things we've preferred to ignore. But alarms also allow us to feel secure, to sleep and to retreat from alertness. They take over vigilance on our behalf.
From the alarm clock and the air-raid siren to the doorbell and the phone alert, the history of alarms is also the history of work, security, technology and emotion. Alarm responds to culture’s most urgent calls to attention by examining all kinds of alarms, from the restless presence of the alarm clock in modernist art to the siren – the sound of the police – in classic hip hop. More than just bells and whistles, alarms are objects that have defined sleeping and waking, safety and danger, and they have fundamentally shaped our understanding of the mind and its capacity for attention.
Object Lessons is published in partnership with an essay series in The Atlantic.
Series: Object Lessons
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Praised for its accessibility and elegance, this book offers a nuanced and joyful look at the role of alarms in everyday life, illuminating their ambivalence and importance. Yves Citton, Professor in Literature and Media, describes it as a soothing and pleasurable lesson in attention ecology that bridges literary studies and social sciences.
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ISBN: 9781501375576
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 23 February 2023
Country: United States
Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 14.0mm
Width: 120.0mm
Height: 164.0mm
Weight: 145g
Pages: 152
About the Author
Alice Bennett is Senior Lecturer in English Literature at Liverpool Hope University, UK. She is the author of Contemporary Fictions of Attention (2018).
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