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31%OFFMeredith Castile - Driver´s License - 9781628929133 - V9781628929133
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Driver´s License

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Description for Driver´s License Paperback. Series Editor(s): Schaberg, Dr. Christopher; Bogost, Ian, Prof. Series: Object Lessons. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFCD; JFD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 121 x 164 x 11. Weight in Grams: 146.
Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. A classic teenage fetish object, the American driver's license has long symbolized freedom and mobility in a nation whose design assumes car travel and whose vastness rivals continents. It is youth's pass to regulated vice-cigarettes, bars, tattoo parlors, casinos, strip joints, music venues, guns. In its more recent history, the license has become increasingly associated with freedom's flipside: screening. The airport's heightened security checkpoint. Controversial ID voting laws. Federally mandated, anti-terrorist driver's ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Series
Object Lessons
Condition
New
Number of Pages
160
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9781628929133
SKU
V9781628929133
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About Meredith Castile
Meredith Castile is a content strategist at Google. She did her graduate studies in English and comparative literature at Stanford University. Driver's License was written during her years living in Vienna, Austria.

Reviews for Driver´s License
Ranging across the 20th century and between continents, Castile teaches a fundamental 'lesson' about the license: what's meant to fix an identity in fact generates competing meanings and values. Freedom and control, security and vulnerability, authenticity and fakery, youth and maturity. The book's Kerouacian opening and mix of pop culture references, personal anecdote, and philosophical musings invite attention to this ... Read more

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