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"This book is a search for the elusive concept of the Anthropocene: the current geologic era defined by human impact on the planet, a concept that is embedding itself ever deeper into the humanities and across disciplines. Searching for the Anthropocene follows a journey through an eclectic range of topics, texts, places, and events to examine how we relate to, travel across, and write about our environment. We live in a time of rampant consumerism and irresponsible disregard for the natural world. Still, we strive to find authentic interactions, something to counter the feeling of looming doom in which humans are inherently implicated, often searching for these in literature and art. The debates around the Anthropocene are in one sense an effort to reveal and work through these tensions. Ranging from beech forests and beach fossils to jet engines and airport renovations, from snacks and snipers to fantasies of space travel and nightmares of cars on the streets, this book develops a wide-angle approach to environmental awareness. Blending personal narrative, cultural criticism, and ecological thought, Searching for the Anthropocene offers fresh ways to ponder literature and the humanities side-by-side with current conditions of environmental catastrophe, existential crisis, and social unrest"--

"This book is a search for the elusive concept of the Anthropocene: the current geologic era defined by human impact on the planet, a concept that is embedding itself ever deeper into the humanities and across disciplines. Searching for the Anthropocene follows a journey through an eclectic range of topics, texts, places, and events to examine how we relate to, travel across, and write about our environment. We live in a time of rampant consumerism and irresponsible disregard for the natural world. Still, we strive to find authentic interactions, something to counter the feeling of looming doom in which humans are inherently implicated, often searching for these in literature and art. The debates around the Anthropocene are in one sense an effort to reveal and work through these tensions. Ranging from beech forests and beach fossils to jet engines and airport renovations, from snacks and snipers to fantasies of space travel and nightmares of cars on the streets, this book develops a wide-angle approach to environmental awareness. Blending personal narrative, cultural criticism, and ecological thought, Searching for the Anthropocene offers fresh ways to ponder literature and the humanities side-by-side with current conditions of environmental catastrophe, existential crisis, and social unrest"--

"The term "airportness" has been used to describe the architectural feel of modern terminals and concourses. In his third book about airports, Christopher Schaberg argues that airportness is not just a way of thinking about design, but also the feelings and sensations related to everyday patterns of flight. It is seeing planes in the sky, recognizing vague roars from above, and interpreting the routines of air travel-from sliding doors, to jet bridge, to lavatory. Airportness: The Nature of Flight departs from where The End of Airports left off, speculating about the future of flight and contemplating aircraft as they appear in a variety of contexts. Airportness explores how planes have become surprisingly natural objects: experienced as unquestionable set pieces, props, and passages--airportness is the rumbling background noise of the jet age."--

Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Chapter 1 Welcome to the ­National Lighter ­Museum -- Chapter 2 Personalized -- Chapter 3 The Disposability of the Permanent -- the Permanence of the Disposable -- Chapter 4 Masters of Fire -- Chapter 5 Smoke 'Em If You've Got 'Em -- Chapter 6 What Have We Learned So Far? -- Chapter 7 Strike Anywhere -- Chapter 8 In Cars -- Chapter 9 Strange Intimacy -- Chapter 10 About These Little Things -- Acknowledgments -- Bibliography -- Filmography -- Index

Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Introduction. What's in a name? -- A room without books -- The lives of bookshelves -- Cicero ' s shelves -- Chapter 1 From medieval to modern: Bookshelves in chains -- The oldest still-chained shelves in the world -- So what are chained libraries? -- A thousand years of chains: Hereford Cathedral -- Digital books & digital chains: The medieval legacy -- What are chains about? -- Chapter 2 The things that go on a bookshelf -- The small library: Putting books on children ' s bookshelves -- Putting books on a bookshelf -- Display & storage: Books & not-books -- How to read a bookshelf -- Chapter 3 Bookshelves that move -- The thousands of books shelved in ships -- What does it mean for a shelf to move? Movable vs. fixed shelves -- Moving the bookshelves -- Making more bookshelves move: Other kinds of mobility -- Still, they move -- Chapter 4 Bookshelves as signs and symbols -- The bookshelf as a scene & a symbol -- Secret shelves in secret rooms -- From power and privilege to Marvel and Marengi -- The unwritten future of bookshelves -- Chapter 5 The life cycle of a bookshelf -- In which, bookshelves are installed at the New York Public Library -- Bookshelves brim with biological metaphor -- Meet the megafauna: Twentieth-century libraries -- Bookshelves with a bauplan -- The death and resurrection of bookshelves -- Conclusion. The plural futures of bookshelves -- Books without shelves & bookless libraries -- The many lives of bookshelves -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Introduction: The Form as Form -- Chapter 1 Private Publicity -- Chapter 2 Testing, Testing -- Chapter 3 Your Opinion of You -- Chapter 4 The Art of Asking -- Chapter 5 Pandora's Checklist -- Chapter 6 Dating and Data -- Chapter 7 Quiz Mania -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 -- Chapter 2 -- Chapter 3 -- Chapter 4 -- Chapter 5 -- Chapter 6 -- Chapter 7 -- Index

Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Part 1 OUT: THING -- 1 How I Cut a Golf Ball in Half, and Found a Lot of Things Inside -- 2 How the Golf Ball Keeps Holy the Lord's Day -- 3 How an Empire Made the Golf Ball, and The Golf Ball Made an Empire -- 4 How The Golf Ball Blew Up America and Made Golf More Fun -- 5 How the Golf Ball Went Ballistic -- 6 How the Golf Ball Reached Détente -- 7 How the Court Decided Custody49 of the Golf Ball -- 8 How the Golf Ball Became the #1 Ball in Golf -- 9 How the Golf Ball Got So Cool -- Part 2 IN: PHENOMENON -- 10 How the Golf Ball Vanishes Before Your Eyes -- 11 How the Golf Ball Makes Us Feel Fulfilled, for a Millisecond -- 12 How to Control the Unruly Golf Ball -- 13 How to Hit the Golf Ball by Not Hitting It -- 14 How the Golf Ball Looks into the Abyss, and the Abyss Looks Back -- 15 How the Golf Ball Won the Golden Fleece -- 16 How the Golf Ball Went to the Moon -- 17 How the Golf Ball Makes Friends with Animals -- 18 How the Golf Ball Prepares for Doomsday -- Notes -- Index

Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Part 1 -- Chapter 1 What Is Silence? -- Part 2 -- Chapter 2 Selling Silence -- Chapter 3 Seeking Silence -- Chapter 4 Silence Versus Solitude -- Chapter 5 Voluntary Silences -- Part 3 -- Chapter 6 The Representation of Silence -- Chapter 7 Silent Reading -- Chapter 8 Silence on Stage -- Chapter 9 The Unspeakable -- Part 4 -- Chapter 10 The Silenced Moment -- Chapter 11 The Silence of Dolls -- Chapter 12 Silencing -- Chapter 13 Silence and Secrets -- Part 5 -- Chapter 14 The Future of Silence -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Preface -- "A Day Made of Glass" -- Macbeth -- Minority Report -- Microscopic vision -- Telescopic vision -- Earrings and landscapes -- Photography -- Shakespeare's sonnets -- "Heart of Glass" -- Sea glass -- Google Glass -- Trademark -- Microsoft HoloLens -- Strange Days -- A glass, darkly -- Surfaces -- "A World of Glass" -- Postscript: What's in my pocket? -- Further reading -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Index

Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Part 1 Hotel Haunting -- 1 Hotel haunting -- Part 2 Fragments from a Hysterical Suitcase -- 2 Hotel Freud -- I -- II -- III -- IV -- 3 Marriage postcards -- Postcard #1—Postcards -- Postcard #2—Writing -- Postcard #3—Silence -- Postcard #4—Dora time -- Postcard #5—Clock time -- Postcard #6—Anxiety time -- Postcard #7—Married time -- Postcard #8—Home times -- Postcard #9—Me-time -- Postcard #10—Bedtime -- Postcard #11—Home work -- Postcard #12—Part-time -- Postcard #–11—Away -- Postcard #–10—Pockets -- Postcard #–9—Drunk time -- Postcard #–8—Evening -- Postcard #–7—Married time II -- Postcard #–6—Angry time -- Postcard #–5—Leaving time -- Postcard #–4—Nameless -- Postcard #–3—Nameless II -- Postcard #–2—Ending -- Postcard #–1—Returning -- 4 Hometel -- I -- II -- III -- IV -- V -- VI -- VII -- VIII -- 5 Hotel diary -- The lobby -- The library (which is also the lobby) -- The switchboard -- The stairs (The elevator) -- The corridor -- The door (key) -- The bedroom -- Dreamwork -- The en-suite -- The restaurant -- I do not go into -- 6 In a German Pension -- I -- II -- III -- IV -- V -- VI -- VII -- VIII -- IX -- 7 Hotel Marx (Bros.) -- I -- II -- 8 The talking cure -- I -- II -- 9 Hotel Marx -- I -- II -- III -- IV -- 10 Postcards from 26 hotels -- Hotel A -- Hotel B -- Hotel C -- Hotel D -- Hotel E -- Hotel F -- Hotel G -- Hotel H -- Hotel I -- Hotel J -- Hotel K -- Hotel L -- Hotel M -- Hotel N -- Hotel O -- Hotel P -- Hotel Q -- Hotel R -- Hotel S -- Hotel T -- Hotel U -- Hotel V -- Hotel W -- Hotel X -- Hotel Y -- Hotel Z -- Notes -- Chapter 1 -- Chapter 2 -- Chapter 3 -- Chapter 4 -- Chapter 5 -- Chapter 6 -- Chapter 7 -- Chapter 9 -- Acknowledgments -- Index -- 2  Hotel Freud -- I -- II -- III -- IV

Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1 How Refrigerators Work -- The icebox era -- Enter the electric household refrigerator -- Creating the cold -- 2 How to Make Your Refrigerator Stand Out -- How to stand out in a crowded market -- Why do Americans have such big refrigerators? -- The exterior -- The interior -- 3 Are the Benefits of Refrigeration Worth the Costs? -- Powering the cold -- Even locavores should love refrigerators -- Life without a refrigerator -- 4 Waste and Wants -- More food, more waste -- Recreating the winter -- "Her Kitchen . . . and Your Good Judgment" -- 5 Freezing and Freezers -- Top or bottom? -- Frozen foods -- The humble ice cube -- Conclusion -- Notes -- INDEX

Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Chapter 1 DISCONNECTED -- Chapter 2 HERMIT ' S HUT -- Chapter 3 OUR SPEED -- Chapter 4 The Phantom Phone Booth -- Chapter 5 SAY ANYTHING -- The telephone box -- The spirit world -- Lighthouse on the highway -- Chapter 6 FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE -- Chapter 7 SIGNIFICANT PORTALS -- Rootlessness -- Chapter 8 A FINE AND PRIVATE PLACE -- " Insidious tentacle " -- Crimes and misdemeanors -- The lives of others -- Chapter 9 GLASS CASE OF EMOTION -- Transformations -- Chapter 10 THE GOD BOOTH -- Burning Man -- New Haven -- Desert solitaire -- Chapter 11 ONLY CONNECT -- NOTES -- Chapter 1 -- Chapter 2 -- Chapter 3 -- Chapter 4 -- Chapter 5 -- Chapter 6 -- Chapter 7 -- Chapter 8 -- Chapter 9 -- Chapter 10 -- Chapter 11 -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- Index

Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Chapter 1 The beach that speaks -- Chapter 2 Trash familiars/Tabflab -- Chapter 3 Pigs in space -- Chapter 4 Million-year panic -- Chapter 5 Ruinism -- Chapter 6 Splinter, shard, and stone -- Chapter 7 Where the hoard is -- Chapter 8 Lake Carbamazepine -- Acknowledgments -- List of Illustrations -- Bibliography -- Index

Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1 Novelty -- Tokyo Telecommunications Research Institute -- Trapping sound -- The Walkman's fathers -- The case of Andreas Pavel -- Invention or evolution? -- Enter the Walkman -- "The thinking man's box" -- The Walkman, culottes, and moccasins -- "Outside of reality" -- 2 Norm -- Hear Muffs and baladeurs -- Symbol of the 1980s -- A public health problem -- Death by Walkman -- "Home taping is killing music" -- "First, drug abuse -- now, earphone abuse" -- "There is no such thing as society" -- A nonstop masturbational fantasy -- Fondalepsy and Walkman's Oblivion -- Cosmetics, Walkmans, and Mars Bars -- "Remember Pearl Harbor" -- The management of everyday life -- A listening, enjoying unit -- What would Miss Manners say? -- 3 Nostalgia -- Music wants to be free -- The iPod arrives -- Whatever happened to Sony? -- From crazy to normal, from glares to shrugs -- "I only listen to cassettes" -- Why the analog nostalgia? -- Revenge of the Walkman -- A force that bends logic -- Epilogue -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 -- Chapter 2 -- Chapter 3 -- Index