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Object Lessons: Remote Control by Caetlin Benson-Allott (2015, Paperback)
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Located in: Malverne, New York, United States
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Item specifics
- Condition
- Acceptable
- Seller Notes
- Modified Item
- No
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- United States
- Region
- American Midwest, American Northeast, American Northwest, American Southeast, American Southwest, American West Coast
- Title
- remote control
- Subjects
- Engineering & Technology
- Age Level
- Adults
- Era
- 2010s
- ISBN
- 9781623563110
- EAN
- 9781623563110
About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Bloomsbury Academic & Professional
ISBN-10
1623563119
ISBN-13
9781623563110
eBay Product ID (ePID)
178751105
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
184 Pages
Publication Name
Remote Control
Language
English
Subject
Media Studies, Television / History & Criticism, Television / General, Popular Culture, Aesthetics, Semiotics & Theory
Publication Year
2015
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Literary Criticism, Philosophy, Performing Arts, Social Science
Series
Object Lessons Ser.
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.6 in
Item Weight
6.1 Oz
Item Length
6.4 in
Item Width
4.8 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
LCCN
2014-033295
Dewey Edition
23
Reviews
"The remote control encourages us to take it for granted. It's ubiquitous but easy to misplace. An essential convenience but still an overly complicated nuisance. But in this compelling history, Caetlin Benson-Allott places remote controls at the center of our media universe, demonstrating how profoundly these devices shape contemporary media practices and our everyday lives. You'll never surf the same way again." -- Jason Mittell, Professor of Film & Media Culture, Middlebury College, USA, and author of Television and American Culture "While promising control, the remote often fails to recognize commands or deliver our desires. Caetlin Benson-Allott shows how the history of the remote, including its affordances and burdensome proliferations, can help us better understand contemporary media technologies." -- Michele White, Associate Professor of Communication, Tulane University, USA, and author of Buy It Now: Lessons from eBay "Caetlin Benson-Allott offers an analysis of 'remote control' as a 'technology and a cultural fantasy.' ...What was once a fantasy, a thing of the imagination, becomes instead an instrument, but by that instantiation it scrambles and reduces the myriad imaginative uses it once anchored - realizes some, sends others packing, or separates them out." --Julian Yates, Los Angeles Review of Books, "The remote control encourages us to take it for granted. It's ubiquitous but easy to misplace. An essential convenience but still an overly complicated nuisance. But in this compelling history, Caetlin Benson-Allott places remote controls at the center of our media universe, demonstrating how profoundly these devices shape contemporary media practices and our everyday lives. You'll never surf the same way again." -- Jason Mittell, Professor of Film & Media Culture, Middlebury College, USA, and author of Television and American Culture "While promising control, the remote often fails to recognize commands or deliver our desires. Caetlin Benson-Allott shows how the history of the remote, including its affordances and burdensome proliferations, can help us better understand contemporary media technologies." -- Michele White, Associate Professor of Communication, Tulane University, USA, and author of Buy It Now: Lessons from eBay "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, The remote control encourages us to take it for granted. It's ubiquitous but easy to misplace. An essential convenience but still an overly complicated nuisance. But in this compelling history, Caetlin Benson-Allott places remote controls at the center of our media universe, demonstrating how profoundly these devices shape contemporary media practices and our everyday lives. You'll never surf the same way again., While promising control, the remote often fails to recognize commands or deliver our desires. Caetlin Benson-Allott shows how the history of the remote, including its affordances and burdensome proliferations, can help us better understand contemporary media technologies., "The remote control encourages us to take it for granted. It's ubiquitous but easy to misplace. An essential convenience but still an overly complicated nuisance. But in this compelling history, Caetlin Benson-Allott places remote controls at the center of our media universe, demonstrating how profoundly these devices shape contemporary media practices and our everyday lives. You'll never surf the same way again." -- Jason Mittell, Professor of Film & Media Culture, Middlebury College, USA, and author of Television and American Culture "While promising control, the remote often fails to recognize commands or deliver our desires. Caetlin Benson-Allott shows how the history of the remote, including its affordances and burdensome proliferations, can help us better understand contemporary media technologies." -- Michele White, Associate Professor of Communication, Tulane University, USA, and author of Buy It Now: Lessons from eBay
Illustrated
Yes
Dewey Decimal
302.23/45
Table Of Content
Introduction: What a Mess! Chapter 1: Changing Volume Chapter 2: Switching Channels Chapter 3: Comprehensive Control Conclusion: Material Literacy Index
Synopsis
Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. While we all use remote controls, we understand little about their history or their impact on our daily lives. Caetlin Benson-Allot looks back on the remote control's material and cultural history to explain how such an innocuous media accessory has changed the way we occupy our houses, interact with our families, and experience the world. From the first wired radio remotes of the 1920s to infrared universal remotes, from the homemade TV controllers to the Apple Remote, remote controls shape our media devices and how we live with them. 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. While we all use remote controls, we understand little about their history or their impact on our daily lives. Caetlin Benson-Allot looks back on the remote control's material and cultural history to explain how such an innocuous media accessory has changed the way we occupy our houses, interact with our families, and experience the world. From the first wired radio remotes of the 1920s to infrared universal remotes, from the homemade TV controllers to the Apple Remote, remote controls shape our media devices and how we live with them. Object Lessons is published in partnership with an essay series in the The Atlantic., While we all use remote controls, we understand little about their history or their impact on our daily lives. By emphasizing volume control, channel shifting, and multi-function management, they tell a story about our experience of mass media, culture, and domestic life. Remote controls reveal the deep impact electronics design has on our self-perception and world-view. ..This book offers lively analyses of the remote control's material, literary, and cultural history to explain how such an innocuous media accessory can change the way we occupy our houses, interact with our families, and experience the world. From the first wired radio remotes of the 1920s to infrared universal remotes, from the homemade TV controllers to the Apple Remote, remote controls shape our media devices and how we live with them.
LC Classification Number
QA76.9.C66
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