Object Lessons：Exit

基本信息

Series:Object Lessons

Format:Paperback / softback 176 pages

Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing Plc

Imprint:Bloomsbury Academic USA

ISBN:9781501358159

Published:3 Sep 2020

Weight:166g

Dimensions:125 x 163 x 17 (mm)

頁面參數僅供參考，具體以實物為準

書籍簡介

《實例研究》系列內容簡短，設計精美，探索生活中常見物件的鮮為人知的故事，激勵我們重新審視日常生活中我們習以為常的事物。

無論是路標還是顛覆性的，個人的還是政治的，選擇還是我們掉進的洞，出口決定了我們如何移動我們的生活，城市和世界。“退出”到底是什麼意思?在這些對建築、交通、祖先、語言、垃圾、死亡、芝麻街和英國脱歐的出口的思考中，勞拉·瓦德爾沿着霓虹燈和出口標識的象形圖去看出口的另一邊是什麼。《實例研究》與《大西洋月刊》的文章系列合作出版。

Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. Exits are all around us. They are the difference between travelling and arriving, being on the inside or outside.

Whether signposted or subversive, personal or political, choices or holes we've fallen through, exits determine how we move around our lives, cities, and the world. What does it really mean to 'exit'? In these meditations on exits in architecture, transport, ancestry, language, garbage, death, Sesame Street and Brexit, Laura Waddell follows the neon and the pictograms of exit signs to see what's on the other side. Object Lessons is published in partnership with an essay series in the The Atlantic.

目錄

Preface

1. Words Associated with Exit

2. After the World of My Own Language Sank

3. Some Poet Throwing Forked Lightning

4a. The History of Exit Signs

4b. The Poetics of Exit Design

4c. The Future of Exit Signs

5. Grouchland: Brexit, Sesame Street, and Garbage

6. Elevation

7. Evictions and Evacuations

8. Existential Exits

9. EXIT This Way

Acknowledgements

Notes

Index

作者簡介

Laura Waddell is a writer and publisher based in Scotland. In 2019 she won a Write to End Violence Against Women Award for her column in the Scotsman newspaper. She currently sits on the editorial board of Gutter magazine. Her cultural criticism and fiction have appeared in the TLS, Guardian, Kinfolk, McSweeney's and several anthologies as well as on BBC Radio 4 and BBC Scotland. Exit is her first book.