Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. Sometime in the mid-1990s we began, often with some trepidation, to enroll for a service that promised to connect us--electronically and efficiently--to our friends and lovers, our bosses and clients. If it seemed at first like simply a change in scale (our mail would be faster, cheaper, more easily distributed to large groups), we now realize that email entails a more fundamental alteration in our communicative consciousness. Randy Malamud's
Email is written for anyone who feels their attention and their intelligence--not to mention their eyesight--being sucked away, byte by byte, in a deadening tsunami of ill-composed blather and meaningless internet flotsam.Object Lessons is published in partnership with an essay series in
The Atlantic.
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This involving and innovative volume's aggregation of ephemera will no doubt delight the social historian ... The snappy prose and keen engagement help pull together the text into an engaging and successful snapshot of collective experience. Times Higher Education
Randy Malamud is Regents' Professor of English at Georgia State University, USA. He is the author of 12 books, including the influential
Reading Zoos: Representations of Animals and Captivity (NYU Press, 1998),
The Importance of Elsewhere: The Globalist Humanist Tourist (Intellect, 2018), and
Strange Bright Blooms: A History of Cut Flowers (Reaktion, 2021). He writes about film, travel, ecocriticism, and culture for the
Chronicle of Higher Education,
Times Higher Education,
Film Quarterly,
Senses of Cinema,
Film International,
Common Knowledge,
Salon,
Huffington Post,
The Conversation, and
truthout. He has been interviewed about his books on NPR, BBC, CNN, and numerous podcasts. He is a Fellow of the Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics.
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Randy Malamud
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Pre-mail
Email
Compose
Subject
Attachment
Inbox
Send
Reply-All
Delete
Junk
Out of Office: After Email
Postillegalscript: How to Write and Read an Email
Index
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Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.
Sometime in the mid-1990s we began, often with some trepidation, to enroll for a service that promised to connect us--electronically and efficiently--to our friends and lovers, our bosses and clients. If it seemed at first like simply a change in scale (our mail would be faster, cheaper, more easily distributed to large groups), we now realize that email entails a more fundamental alteration in our communicative consciousness.
Randy Malamud's Email is written for anyone who feels their attention and their intelligence--not to mention their eyesight--being sucked away, byte by byte, in a deadening tsunami of ill-composed blather and meaningless internet flotsam.
Object Lessons is published in partnership with an essay series in The Atlantic.
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