Alarm
$22.43
- Paperback
152 pages
- Release Date
8 March 2023
Summary
Wake-Up Call: An Object Lesson on Alarms
Alarms are alarming. They wake us up, demand our attention and force us to attend to things we’ve preferred to ignore. But alarms also allow us to feel secure, to sleep and to retreat from alertness. They take over vigilance on our behalf.
From the alarm clock and the air-raid siren to the doorbell and the phone alert, the history of alarms is also the history of work, security, technology and emotion. Alarm responds to cultu…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781501375576 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1501375571 |
| Series: | Object Lessons |
| Author: | Dr. Alice Bennett |
| Publisher: | Bloomsbury Publishing Plc |
| Imprint: | Bloomsbury Academic USA |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 152 |
| Release Date: | 8 March 2023 |
| Weight: | 145g |
| Dimensions: | 164mm x 120mm x 14mm |
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Critics Review
By revealing the uncanny ubiquity of alarms in our daily life, by making us smile about their profound ambivalence, Alice Bennett has written a pleasurable and soothing book. From burglary to belatedness, from house fires to climate change, this exemplary collaboration between literary studies and the social sciences sheds a reflexive, nuanced and joyful light on our darker anxieties. A most accessible, elegant and important lesson in attention ecology. * Yves Citton, Professor in Literature and Media, University Paris 8, France, and author of The Ecology of Attention *
About The Author
Dr. Alice Bennett
Alice Bennett is Senior Lecturer in English Literature at Liverpool Hope University, UK. She is the author of Contemporary Fictions of Attention (2018).
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