* The Wire * Tuhus-Dubrow illuminates a web of stories connected to the Walkman, her references as ubiquitous as its users. * Pitchfork (named one of Pitchfork's favorite books of 2017) * careful, astute study. Her thoughtfulness imbues this chronicle of a once-modern, now-obsolete device with a mindfulness that isn't often seen in writing about technology. But as Rebecca Tuhus-Dubrow outlines in the delightful Personal Stereo, being able to do so is a relatively recent development. * Music Book Review * In 2017, having music pumped into your ears through headphones while existing in public is a thoroughly normal thing to do. * New Books Network * An honest & deft entry in Object Lessons series. This series of short books, 'Object Lessons', continues the tradition subjects already covered include the remote control, driver's licence, shipping container and drone, with more to come.A compelling and expertly researched study of the Sony Walkman. 'In 1957 the French critic and semiotician Roland Barthes published Mythologies, a groundbreaking series of essays in which he analysed the popular culture of his day, from laundry detergent to the face of Greta Garbo, professional wrestling to the Citroën DS. Billed as books about 'the hidden lives of ordinary things,' there are 10 so far, and every one a curiosity not just an object, but a world in and of itself.'- Los Angeles Review of Books

'They are beautiful: elegant paperbacks, the quality kind, with front and back flaps, not quite pocket-sized but easily transportable, each coming in at under 200 pages, each inspired by an object. Earth - Jeffrey Jerome Cohen and Lindy Elkins-Tanton.Christopher Schaberg – Loyola University New Orleans.Ian Bogost – Georgia Institute of Technology.As stated in the Object Lessons webpage, 'Each Object Lessons project will start from a specific inspiration: an anthropological query, ecological matter, archeological discovery, historical event, literary passage, personal narrative, philosophical speculation, technological innovation-and from there develop original insights and novel lessons about the object in question.' Series publishers Each of the essays (2,000 words) and the books (25,000 words) investigate a single object through a variety of approaches that often reveal something unexpected about that object. Object Lessons is 'an essay and book series about the hidden lives of ordinary things'.

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