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Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. Though we try to imagine otherwise, waste is every object, plus time. Whatever else an object is, it's also waste-or was, or will be. All that is needed is time or a change of sentiment or circumstance. Waste is not merely the field of discarded objects, but the name we give to our troubled relationship with the decaying world outside ourselves. Waste focuses on those waste objects that most fundamentally shape our lives and also attempts to understand our complicated emotional and intellectual relationships to our own refuse: nuclear waste, climate debris, pop-culture rubbish, digital detritus, and more. Object Lessons is published in partnership with an essay series in The Atlantic. ** Review "Fascinating, thought-provoking, and necessary, Brian Thill's Waste is about not just our present but our future. You can't read it and come out of the experience unchanged." ― Jeff VanderMeer, New York Times-Bestselling Author of The Southern Reach trilogy "If 'waste,' as Brian Thill points out, is any object plus time, then Waste is waste plus spirited curiosity and tremendous

Who reads Waste (Object Lessons)?

Author

Brian Thill; Christopher Schaberg; Ian Bogost

Publisher

Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Published

2017

Language

EN

ISBN

9781628924367

Category

history

Subjects

Anthropology, Philosophy, Technology

Rating

4.17 / 5 (25 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14