Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about
the hidden lives of ordinary things. The story of the compact disc is
also the story of the end of physical media. It is the story of how
the quest for perfection laid the grounds for the death of a great
industry. For in the passage from analogue media, like records and
tapes, to digital formats, like CDs, something changed in the nature
of media and in the relationship we have with music. Music became
code, a sequence of 1s and 0s, a flow of pure information. The
material structure of the medium itself was always supposed to
disappear. But the physical has proved to possess an uncanny knack for
returning. Today the CD is a zombie medium, still popular amongst
certain avant-garde record labels and Japanese consumers. Against all
the odds, the spectre endures. Object Lessons is published in
partnership with an essay series in The Atlantic.
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ISBN
9781501348532
Publisert
2020
Utgave
1. utgave
Utgiver
Vendor
Bloomsbury Academic
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Digital bok
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