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Spent Light

Lara Pawson
3.69/5 (137 ratings)
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A woman contemplates her hand-me-down toaster and suddenly the whole world erupts into her kitchen, in all its brutality and loveliness: global networks of resource extraction and forced labour, technologies of industrial murder, histories of genocide, alongside traditions of craft, the pleasures of convenience and dexterity, the giving and receiving of affection and care.

‘“Everything in this damned world calls for indignation,” the woman says at one point. All of it’s there, all interconnected, and she can’t stop looking. The likeness between a pepper mill and a hand grenade, for example, or the scarcely hidden violence of an egg timer.

And what if objects knew their own histories? What if we could allow ourselves to see those weird resonances, echoes, loops, glitches, just as Pawson does so beautifully and unnervingly here?
Format:
Paperback
Pages:
146 pages
Publication:
2024
Publisher:
CB Editions
Edition:
Language:
eng
ISBN10:
1739421221
ISBN13:
9781739421229
kindle Asin:
1739421221

Spent Light

Lara Pawson
3.69/5 (137 ratings)
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A woman contemplates her hand-me-down toaster and suddenly the whole world erupts into her kitchen, in all its brutality and loveliness: global networks of resource extraction and forced labour, technologies of industrial murder, histories of genocide, alongside traditions of craft, the pleasures of convenience and dexterity, the giving and receiving of affection and care.

‘“Everything in this damned world calls for indignation,” the woman says at one point. All of it’s there, all interconnected, and she can’t stop looking. The likeness between a pepper mill and a hand grenade, for example, or the scarcely hidden violence of an egg timer.

And what if objects knew their own histories? What if we could allow ourselves to see those weird resonances, echoes, loops, glitches, just as Pawson does so beautifully and unnervingly here?
Format:
Paperback
Pages:
146 pages
Publication:
2024
Publisher:
CB Editions
Edition:
Language:
eng
ISBN10:
1739421221
ISBN13:
9781739421229
kindle Asin:
1739421221

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