This little book is a part of Bloomsbury Object Lessons series in which each book studies an object. You wouldn’t expect such a short book or seemingly innocent object to have such deep narratives and abstractions around it. Yet this book does so. In particular, I find the final 3 chapters to be the most poignant. They also help establish the meaning of objects well beyond surface materializism. From opening my mind to new perspectives of meaning and sparking new questions of human suffering, objectification, human erasure, and narrative building, I’ve placed this book as one of my most formative when it comes to objects and meaning.
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This little book is a part of Bloomsbury Object Lessons series in which each book studies an object. You wouldn’t expect such a short book or seemingly innocent object to have such deep narratives and abstractions around it. Yet this book does so. In particular, I find the final 3 chapters to be the most poignant. They also help establish the meaning of objects well beyond surface materializism. From opening my mind to new perspectives of meaning and sparking new questions of human suffering, objectification, human erasure, and narrative building, I’ve placed this book as one of my most formative when it comes to objects and meaning.