Batteries of Life: On the History of Things and Their Perception in Modernity

by Christoph Asendorf

Reflecting on the technological age, poet Rainer Maria Rilke wrote of the intense emotions with which people can endow manufactured objects. We seem to "charge" the world of things as we would a... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520065735
• ISBN13: 9780520065734
• Release Date: December 1993
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 2.25 lbs.