Object Lessons： Office

基本信息

Series:Object Lessons

Format:Paperback / softback 152 pages

Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing Plc

Imprint:Bloomsbury Academic USA

ISBN:9781501348679

Published: 12 Nov 2020

Classifications:Literary theory, Philosophy: aesthetics, Material culture

Readership:General (US: Trade)

Weight:142g

Dimensions:121 x 164 x 15 (mm)

Pub. Country:United States

頁面參數僅供參考，具體以實物為準

書籍簡介

《實例研究》是一系列短小、設計精美的書籍，講述平凡事物的隱祕生活。從19世紀末的誕生到21世紀的衰落，希拉·黎明的《辦公室》講述了一個地方的文化史，這個地方可以説是後現代經濟中最主要的勞動場所。在20世紀戰後的幾十年裏，辦公室在文化上聲名鵲起，在電視、電影、文學以及整個廣告史上都獲得了標誌性的地位。

儘管有證據表明，越來越多的人不再在辦公室工作，但大多數人都對辦公室文化的陳詞濫調了如指掌。隨着80年代和90年代計算機技術的發展，辦公室發生了很多變化。1989年，微軟推出了名為Microsoft Office的多任務應用套件，為Office的生存打響了第一槍。

因此，這本書提出了一個問題:企業文化是如何圍繞辦公室這一理念形成的?如果辦公室消亡了，它又會發生怎樣的變化?《實例研究》與《大西洋月刊》的文章系列合作出版。

Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. From its origins in the late 19th century to its decline in the 21st, Sheila Liming's Office narrates a cultural history of a place that has arguably been the primary site of labor in the postmodern economy. During the post-war decades of the 20th century, the office rose to prominence in culture, achieving an iconic status that is reflected in television, film, literature, and throughout the history of advertising.

Most people are well versed in the cliches of office culture, despite evidence that an increasing number of us no longer work in offices. With the development of computing technology in the 1980s and 90s, the office underwent many changes. Microsoft debuted its suite of multitasking applications known as Microsoft Office in 1989, firing the first shot in the war for the office's survival.

This book therefore poses the question: how did culture become organized around the idea of the office, and how will it change if the office become extinct?Object Lessons is published in partnership with an essay series in The Atlantic.

作者簡介

希拉·黎明（Sheila Liming），美國尚普蘭學院寫作項目副教授，著有《圖書館對女人的意義:伊迪絲·華頓與藏書意志》(2020)一書。

Sheila Liming is Associate Professor in the Writing program at Champlain College, USA, and author of What a Library Means to a Woman: Edith Wharton and the Will to Collect Books (2020).