Ordinary Lives : Studies in the Everyday

ISBN-13: 9780415461863 / Angielski / Twarda / 2010 / 194 str.

Ben Highmore

Opis

Ben Highmore looks at the seemingly banal world of objects, work, daily media, & food, & finds there a scintillating array of passionate experience. Through a series of case studies & building on his previous work on the everyday, Highmore examines our relationship to familiar objects, repetitive work, media & food.

Spis treści

@contents: Selected Contents: Acknowledgements  Permissions  Preface  Chapter 1. Introduction  Chapter 2. Everyday Aesthetics  I. Enlightenment Aesthetics  II. John Dewey and the Grain of Experience  III. Jacques Rancière and the Distribution of the Sensible  Chapter 3. Familiar Things  Chapter 4. Doing Time: Work Life  Chapter 5. Absentminded Media  Chapter 6. Senses of the Ordinary  Chapter 7. Conclusion: Towards a political aesthetics of everyday life  Bibliography  Index

O autorze

Ben Highmore is Reader in Media and Cultural Studies at the University of Sussex, UK. He is the author of A Passion for Cultural Studies (2009), Michel de Certeau: Analysing Culture (2006), Cityscapes: Cultural Readings in the Material and Symbolic City (2005), Everyday Life and Cultural Theory (2002) and The Everyday Life Reader (2002).