Shipping Container Contributor(s): Martin, Craig (Author), Schaberg, Christopher (Editor), Bogost, Ian (Editor) |
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ISBN: 1501303147 ISBN-13: 9781501303142 Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic OUR PRICE: $13.46 Product Type: Paperback Published: January 2016 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Semiotics & Theory - Design | History & Criticism - Social Science | Anthropology - Cultural & Social |
Dewey: 385.72 |
LCCN: 2015025477 |
Series: Object Lessons |
Physical Information: 0.5" H x 4.5" W x 6.4" (0.40 lbs) 160 pages |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. The shipping container is all around: whizzing by on the highway, trundling past on rails, unloading behind a big box store even as you shop there, clanking on the docks just out of sight.... 90% of the goods and materials that move around the globe do so in shipping containers. It is an absolutely ubiquitous object, even if most of us have no direct contact with it. But what is this thing? Where has it been, and where is it going? Craig Martin's book illuminates the "development of containerization"--including design history, standardization, aesthetics, and a surprising speculative discussion of the futurity of shipping containers. Object Lessons is published in partnership with an essay series in The Atlantic. |
Contributor Bio(s): Martin, Craig: - Craig Martin is Assistant Professor of Religious Studies, St. Thomas Aquinas College, USA.Schaberg, Christopher: - Christopher Schaberg is Associate Professor of English at Loyola University New Orleans, USA. He is the author of The Textual Life of Airports: Reading the Culture of Flight (2013) and co-editor of Deconstructing Brad Pitt (2014). He is series co-editor (Ian Bogost) of the series Object Lessons.Bogost, Ian: - Ian Bogost is Ivan Allen College Distinguished Chair in Media Studies and Professor of Interactive Computing at the Georgia Institute of Technology, and Founding Partner at Persuasive Games LLC. Bogost is author or co-author of seven books: Unit Operations (2006), Persuasive Games (2007), Racing the Beam ( 2009), Newsgames (2010), How To Do Things with Videogames (2011), Alien Phenomenology (University of Minnesota Press, 2012), and 10 PRINT CHR (205.5+RND(1)); Goto 10 (2012). Bogost also creates videogames that cover topics as varied as airport security, disaffected workers, the petroleum industry, suburban errands, and tort reform. His games have been played by millions of people and exhibited internationally. His game A Slow Year, a collection of game poems for Atari, won the Vanguard and Virtuoso awards at the 2010 Indiecade Festival. |