Tobias Carroll

Political Sign (eBook, PDF)

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.

In an election year, political signs can be impossible to avoid. They're in front yards, on bumper stickers, and in some places you might never have expected. Tobias Carroll chronicles the permutations and secret histories of political signs, venturing into the story of how they came to be and illuminating how the signs around us shape us in ways we often fail to appreciate.

In an era of political polarization and heated debate, what can be learned from studying how our personal space becomes the setting for both? Understanding political signs can help us understand our current political moment, and how we might transcend it.

Object Lessons is published in partnership with an essay series in The Atlantic.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing Inc
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. September 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781501358128
• Artikelnr.: 59755259

Autorenporträt

Tobias Carroll is Managing Editor of the literary website Vol.1 Brooklyn. He is the author of two books, Reel (2016) and Transitory (2016). His writing has been published by Vulture, Pitchfork, Rolling Stone, Hazlitt, Literary Hub, and The Paris Review, among other places.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 1. The Ubiquity of Yard Signs 2. The Sign Wars 3. The Business
of Signs 4. The Pros and Cons of Being Generic 5. Political Signs in the
Public Eye 6. Signs as Shorthand, Signs as Remakes 7. On Protest Signs 8.
The Making of a Protest Sign 9. Sports & Signs & Sponsors 10. Signs in the
Seats Interlude: The Punk Chapter 11. Knives Bats New (Political) Tats 12.
HOPE and Its Discontents 13. When Art Is a Sign 14. When a Sign Is Art
Conclusion Acknowledgments & Thanks Notes Index