Jet lag / Christopher J. Lee.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lee, Christopher J., author.

Series:

Object lessons

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jet lag--Social aspects.

Jet lag.

Jet Lag Syndrome.

Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice.

Social aspects.

Medical Subjects:

Jet Lag Syndrome.

Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice.

Physical Description:

185 pages : illustrations ; 17 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2017.

Summary:

"Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. What exactly is jet lag? And, more importantly, how do we live with jet lag? Christopher J. Lee's book introduces jet lag as an object of study, tracing medical, temporal, and technological approaches for understanding this strange, hidden cost of our populist cosmopolitanism today. Drawing upon personal experience and an array of cultural registers, Jet Lag considers this present-day Icarian experience to be an allegory of our intrinsic human limits in the face of modern technological change. Jet lag is revealed to be an unavoidable discomfort, an existential condition that is the result of the human body and its inner clock being pitched against the time-leaping effects of modern aviation technologies. Object Lessons is published in partnership with an essay series in The Atlantic."-- Provided by publisher.

"Jet lag is a physical ailment, a temporal condition, a political effect, and, ultimately, a cultural moment in sum, a universal, yet under-examined, object of study that serves as an allegory of our human limitations in the face of the advances of technology in the modern world"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction : The Esperanto of Jet Lag

The Romantic Machine

Babel's Clock

Circadian Rhythm and Blues

Heaven Up Here

Conclusion : Jet Lag as a Way of Life.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781501323225

1501323229

OCLC:

958781275

Publisher Number:

99981676902

40027548040