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by Randy Malamud

Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Published Date 2019-09-19
Page Count 184
Categories Literary Criticism / Semiotics & Theory, Philosophy / Aesthetics, Social Science / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Computers / Design, Graphics & Media / General, Computers / System Administration / Email Servers
Language EN
Average Rating N/A (based on N/A ratings)
Maturity Rating No Mature Content Detected
ISBN 150134191X
Book Cover Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.

Sometime in the mid-1990s we began, often with some trepidation, to enroll for a service that promised to connect us--electronically and efficiently--to our friends and lovers, our bosses and clients. If it seemed at first like simply a change in scale (our mail would be faster, cheaper, more easily distributed to large groups), we now realize that email entails a more fundamental alteration in our communicative consciousness.

Randy Malamud's Email is written for anyone who feels their attention and their intelligence--not to mention their eyesight--being sucked away, byte by byte, in a deadening tsunami of ill-composed blather and meaningless internet flotsam.

Object Lessons is published in partnership with an essay series in The Atlantic.
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