Sticker Contributor(s): Hoke, Henry (Author), Schaberg, Christopher (Editor), Bogost, Ian (Editor) |
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ISBN: 1501367226 ISBN-13: 9781501367229 Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic OUR PRICE: $13.46 Product Type: Paperback Published: January 2022 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Semiotics & Theory - Philosophy | Aesthetics - Social Science | Anthropology - Cultural & Social |
Physical Information: 0.6" H x 4.6" W x 6.4" (0.35 lbs) 164 pages |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. Stickers adorn our first memories, dot our notebooks and our walls, are stuck annoyingly on fruit, and accompany us into adulthood to shout our perspectives from car bumpers. They hold surprising power in their ability to define and provoke, and hold a strange steadfast presence in our age of fading physical media. Henry Hoke employs a constellation of stickers to explore queer boyhood, parental disability, and ancestral violence. A memoir in 20 stickers, Sticker is set against the backdrop of the encroaching neo-fascist presence in Hoke's hometown of Charlottesville, Virginia, which results in the fatal terrorist attack of August 12th and its national aftermath. Object Lessons is published in partnership with an essay series in The Atlantic. |