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Lara Pawson

出版	Gardners Books, 2024
主題	Biography & Autobiography / Personal Memoirs
ISBN	17394212219781739421229
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=jDAp0AEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋

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 scarecely hidden violence of an egg timer. And what if objects knew their own histories? What if we could allow ourselves to see whose weird resonances, echoes, loops, glitches, just as Pawson does so beautifully and unnervingly here?