Description: Ok, Paperback by Mcsweeney, Michelle, ISBN 1501367188, ISBN-13 9781501367182, Brand New, Free shipping in the US Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. "OK" as a word accepts proposals, describes the world as satisfactory (but not good), provides conversational momentum, or even agrees (or disagrees). OK as an object, however, tells a story of how technology writes itself into language, permanently altering communication. OK is a young word, less than 200 years old. It began as an acronym for “all correct” when the steam-powered printing press pushed newspapers into the mainstream. Today it is spoken and written by nearly everyone in the world. Drawing on linguistics, history, and new media studies, Michelle McSweeney traces OK from its birth in the Penny Presses through telephone lines, grammar books, and television signals into the age. Nearly ubiquitous and often overlooked, OK illustrates the never-ending dance between language, technology, and culture, and offers lessons for our own techno-historical moment. Object Lessons is published in partnership with an essay series in The Atlantic.
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Book Title: Ok
Number of Pages: 144 Pages
Publication Name: Ok
Language: English
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Publication Year: 2023
Item Height: 0.5 in
Subject: General, Aesthetics, Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Semiotics & Theory
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 4.8 Oz
Subject Area: Literary Criticism, Philosophy, Social Science, Language Arts & Disciplines
Item Length: 6.4 in
Author: Michelle Mcsweeney
Series: Object Lessons Ser.
Item Width: 4.8 in
Format: Trade Paperback
