{"product_id":"9781501323225","title":"Jet Lag","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eJet Lag\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor(s): Christopher J. Lee\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eObject Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJet lag is a momentary condition resulting from the human body and its inner clock being pitched against the time-leaping effects of modern aviation. But more than that, it is a situation that explains time, technology, and the human body. Jet lag epitomizes the accelerated world we live in. It makes the speed and discomfort of globalization tangible on a personal level. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTracing physiological, temporal, technological, and cultural meanings, Christopher J. Lee's \u003ci\u003eJet Lag \u003c\/i\u003eponders our intrinsic human limits in the face of modern innovation, revealing the latent costs of global cosmopolitanism today.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eObject Lessons is published in partnership with an essay series in \u003ci\u003eThe Atlantic.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReview(s):\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"In this beguiling book, Christopher J. Lee opens up the whole panorama of jetting off, arriving, and sleeping it off. From T. S. Eliot to Dalí, from Chaplin to\u003ci\u003e Lost in Translation\u003c\/i\u003e, he shows how jet lag is the deep dark symptom of modern life's struggle with time. \u003ci\u003eJet Lag\u003c\/i\u003e is a profound and witty meditation on a key secret of modernity.\" — \u003ci\u003eEnda Duffy, Arnhold Presidential Department Chair, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA, and author of The Speed Handbook\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eJet Lag \u003c\/i\u003eis a revelatory and compelling meditation on the temporal and affective dislocations of global capitalism. Christopher J. Lee lucidly maps the dissonant incompatibility between human beings and technological acceleration but he also insists on the importance of our imaginative cultural and aesthetic responses to the many systemic derangements of individual experience.\" — \u003ci\u003eJonathan Crary, Meyer Schapiro Professor of Modern Art and Theory, Columbia University, USA, and author of 24\/7\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eISBN:  9781501323225\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ","brand":"Bloomsbury Academic","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback","offer_id":40660280017102,"sku":"9781501323225","price":14.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0600\/7029\/7806\/products\/getimage_c9aeb37f-fd29-476c-9c97-fbe49c5ad39c.jpg?v=1639536547","url":"https:\/\/pickwickbookshop.com\/products\/9781501323225","provider":"Pickwick Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}