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Extinct : a compendium of obsolete objects / edited by Barbara Penner [and three others].
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Commercial products.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (391 pages)
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- London, England : Reaktion Books, [2021]
- System Details:
- Mode of access: World Wide Web.
- Summary:
- Blending architecture, design, and technology, a visual tour through futures past via the objects we have replaced, left behind, and forgotten.So-called extinct objects are those that were imagined but were never in use, or that existed but are now unused--superseded, unfashionable, or simply forgotten. Extinctgathers together an exceptional range of artists, curators, architects, critics, and academics, including Hal Foster, Barry Bergdoll, Deyan Sudjic, Tacita Dean, Emily Orr, Richard Wentworth, and many more. In eighty-five essays, contributors nominate "extinct" objects and address them in a series of short, vivid, sometimes personal accounts, speaking not only of obsolete technologies, but of other ways of thinking, making, and interacting with the world. Extinct is filled with curious, half-remembered objects, each one evoking a future that never came to pass. It is also a visual treat, full of interest and delight.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Introduction
- Acoustic Location Device
- Action Office Acoustic Area Conditioner: The ‘Maskitball’
- Air-curtain Roof
- All-plastic House
- Arsenic Wallpaper
- Arundel Print
- Asbestos-cement Rondavel
- Ashtray
- Atmospheric Railway
- Cab-fare Map
- Central Heating
- Chaparral 2J: The ‘Sucker Car’
- Chatelaine
- The Clapper
- Close-constraint Key
- Concorde
- ConvAirCar
- Cybernetic Anthropomorphic Machines
- Cybersyn
- Cyclegraph
- Cyclops 1
- Dougong
- Dymaxion House
- Edison’s Anti-gravitation Under-clothing
- Electrotype Pattern Generated by AI.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- Part of the metadata in this record was created by AI, based on the text of the resource.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9781789144536
- 1789144531
- OCLC:
- 1267761962
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