The love of analog meditations on value Darren Hudson Hick

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hick, Darren Hudson, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Values.

Agent (Philosophy).

Art--Philosophy.

Digital media--Social aspects.

Technology--Philosophy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

London Bloomsbury Academic 2026

Summary:

"Vinyl records. Board games. Paperback books. Film. A philosopher dives into the analog world to show what it offers us and what it says about our values. Packed with first-person anecdotes, hand-drawn illustrations, and extensive scholarship, Darren Hudson Hick takes us through the pleasure of board games and jigsaw puzzles and inside the values of materiality, care, and agency. Hick moves from pinball machines and first editions to meditative cleaning and pottery to introduce us to key ideas in value theory, everyday aesthetics, virtue theory, and care ethics, alongside findings from psychology, anthropology, and sociology. What accounts for the resurgence of analog media? Why are we buying all this stuff? Hick approaches these questions from a pragmatist perspective — a view that demands drawing on personal experience to better understand the values that pervade our daily lives. The result is a lively and informed exploration of material culture that tells us a surprising amount about ourselves and how we live. Whenever we set up a board game, dust a record, load a roll of film, or sit down with a coloring book, we get to think about what we value. The Love of Analogis a study in what’s important to us. It’s a celebration of being human"-- Bloomsbury Collections

Contents:

The return to analog

The value of material

The value of care

The value of agency

Knowing what’s important

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index

Online resource; title from home page (Bloomsbury Collections, viewed July 28, 2026)

Other Format:

Print version Hick, Darren Hudson Love of analog

ISBN:

9781350612969

1350612960

9781350612976

1350612979

9781350612952

1350612952

OCLC:

1593364005

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license