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Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.
We are constantly signing ourselves. Alphabetic signatures (names on dotted lines) permeate legal documents, autograph books, checks, and credit card receipts. Bodily signatures-fingerprints, DNA traces, and retinal patterns-are distinct but related forms of marking, which can be traced back to specific individuals across time. In an age of Autopens and electrical styli, we lack a history of signature, a manifesto of its possibilities and limitations.
If writing has long been the dividing line between humans and the nonhuman world, signature obliterates these boundaries. Dogs mark their territory with olfactory signatures. Earth inscribes its climatological history in polar ice cores. To have a body is to leave traces of that body behind. Part chronicle, part speculative travel log, Hunter Duke's Signature pursues the identifying marks made by humans, animals, and planetary forces, revealing the histories and fantasies encoded in their signatures.
Object Lessons is published in partnership with an essay series in the The Atlantic.
- Format: Trade Paperback
- Author: Dukes, Hunter
- ISBN: 9781501353345
- Condition: Used
- Dimensions: 6.40 x 0.70
- Number Of Pages: 192
- Publication Year: 2020