Blanket (Object Lessons) [Paperback] Thompson, Kara; Schaberg, Christopher and Bogost, Ian

Thompson, Kara; Schaberg, Christopher [Series Editor]; Bogost, Ian [Series Editor];

ISBN 10: 1628922656 / ISBN 13: 9781628922653

Published by Bloomsbury Academic, 2018

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Never read, pages are clean and unmarked. Our copy is a new paperback with printed covers, showing only light shelfwear.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Blanket (Object Lessons) [Paperback] Thompson, Kara; Schaberg, Christopher and Bogost, Ian
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Publication Date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1628922656
• ISBN 13: 9781628922653
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: As New
• Weight: 6 ounces
• Seller catalogs:
  • Social Studies

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Synopsis

Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.

We are born into blankets. They keep us alive and they cover us in death. We pull and tug on blankets to see us through the night or an illness. They shield us in mourning and witness our most intimate pleasures.

Curious, fearless, vulnerable, and critical, Blanket interweaves cultural critique with memoir to cast new light on a ubiquitous object. Kara Thompson reveals blankets everywhere--film, art, geology, disasters, battlefields, resistance, home--and transforms an ordinary thing into a vibrant and vital carrier of stories and secrets, an object of inheritance and belonging, a companion to uncover.

Object Lessons is published in partnership with an essay series in The Atlantic.

About the Authors

Kara Thompson is Assistant Professor of English and American Studies, College of William and Mary, USA. Her writing has appeared in the Los Angeles Review of Books, Avidly, and the Atlantic.

Ian Bogost is an author and an award-winning game designer. He is Barbara and David Thomas Distinguished Professor in Arts & Sciences, Director of Film & Media Studies, and Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at Washington University in St. Louis. Bogost is also Founding Partner at Persuasive Games LLC, an independent game studio, and a Contributing Editor at The Atlantic. Bogost is author or co-author of ten books, including Alien Phenomenology (2012)and Play Anything (2016).

Christopher Schaberg is Director of the Program in Public Scholarship at Washington University in St. Louis, USA, and the author of The Textual Life of Airports (2012), The End of Airports (2015), Airportness (2017), The Work of Literature in an Age of Post-Truth (2018), Searching for the Anthropocene (2019), Pedagogy of the Depressed (2021), and Adventure: An Argument for Limits (2023), all published by Bloomsbury. He is also the founding co-editor (with Ian Bogost) of Bloomsbury's Object Lessons book series.