Compact Disc (Object Lessons) [Paperback] Barry, Robert; Schaberg, Christopher and Bogost, Ian
Barry, Robert; Schaberg, Christopher [Series Editor]; Bogost, Ian [Series Editor];
Language: English
Published by Bloomsbury Academic, 2020
Series: Book 48 of 103 - Object Lessons
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- Title
- Compact Disc (Object Lessons) [Paperback] Barry, Robert; Schaberg, Christopher and Bogost, Ian
- Author
- Barry, Robert; Schaberg, Christopher [Series Editor]; Bogost, Ian [Series Editor];
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Academic
- Publication year
- 2020
- Condition
- As New
- Binding
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 1501348515
- ISBN 13
- 9781501348518
- Item weight
- 5 ounces
- Dimensions
- 4x0x6
- Series
- Book 48 of 103: Object Lessons
- Seller catalogs
- Social Studies
Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.
The story of the compact disc is also the story of the end of physical media. It is the story of how the quest for perfection laid the grounds for the death of a great industry. For in the passage from analogue media, like records and tapes, to digital formats, like CDs, something changed in the nature of media and in the relationship we have with music. Music became code, a sequence of 1s and 0s, a flow of pure information. The material structure of the medium itself was always supposed to disappear. But the physical has proved to possess an uncanny knack for returning.
Today the CD is a zombie medium, still popular amongst certain avant-garde record labels and Japanese consumers. Against all the odds, the spectre endures.
Object Lessons is published in partnership with an essay series in The Atlantic.
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About the Author
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.
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).
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