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Jet Lag de Dr. Christopher J. Lee

Jet Lag: Object Lessons

Autor Dr. Christopher J. Lee
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 6 sep 2017
Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. Jet lag is a momentary condition resulting from the human body and its inner clock being pitched against the time-leaping effects of modern aviation. But more than that, it is a situation that explains time, technology, and the human body. Jet lag epitomizes the accelerated world we live in. It makes the speed and discomfort of globalization tangible on a personal level. Tracing physiological, temporal, technological, and cultural meanings, Christopher J. Lee's Jet Lag ponders our intrinsic human limits in the face of modern innovation, revealing the latent costs of global cosmopolitanism today.Object Lessons is published in partnership with an essay series in The Atlantic.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781501323225
ISBN-10: 1501323229
Pagini: 200
Ilustrații: 44 b/w illustrations
Dimensiuni: 121 x 165 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.18 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Academic
Seria Object Lessons

Locul publicării:New York, United States

Caracteristici

Jet lag is not merely a condition of exhaustion and momentary discomfort: it is an allegory of our human limitations in a world of modern technological change-jet lag, in sum, highlights a broader tension between our avid technological aspirations and our intrinsic human biology

Notă biografică

Christopher J. Lee is Associate Professor of History at Lafayette College, USA. He has published four previous books and travels frequently.

Cuprins

Introduction: The Esperanto of Jet Lag1. The Romantic Machine 2. Babel's Clock3. Circadian Rhythm and Blues 4. Heaven Up HereConclusion: Jet Lag as a Way of LifeAcknowledgmentsList of IllustrationsNotesIndex

Recenzii

Lee has a gift for making surprising yet apposite associations ... He is best, though, when contemplating the "global capitalist spectacle" of airports, with their unifying corporate flags for individual airlines and the ubiquitous brands displayed down polished corridors.
In this beguiling book, Christopher J. Lee opens up the whole panorama of jetting off, arriving, and sleeping it off. From T. S. Eliot to Dalí, from Chaplin to Lost in Translation, he shows how jet lag is the deep dark symptom of modern life's struggle with time. Jet Lag is a profound and witty meditation on a key secret of modernity.
Jet Lag is a revelatory and compelling meditation on the temporal and affective dislocations of global capitalism. Christopher J. Lee lucidly maps the dissonant incompatibility between human beings and technological acceleration but he also insists on the importance of our imaginative cultural and aesthetic responses to the many systemic derangements of individual experience.
Jet Lag goes beyond the expected, leaving behind the simple science of this curious phenomenon to explore intriguing tangents inspired by the subject. A philosophical musing on the importance of sleep, a short essay exploring our relationship with flying, and even a musing upon jet lag as not only a physical phenomenon but a spiritual one as well.. Lee manages to encompass quite a lot in less than 200 pages, delving into the consequences of modern convenience . Jet Lag is no mere trivia book or brief primer on the subject; it's one man pondering the relationship between humanity, gravity, time, and space. Four stars.