{"product_id":"9781501377822","title":"Air Conditioning","description":"Author: Hsu, Hsuan L.\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9781501377822\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Bloomsbury\u003cbr\u003eYear first published: 04 Apr 2024\u003cbr\u003ePages: 160 Format: Paperback \/ softback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eObject Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.\u003cbr\u003eAir conditioning aspires to be unnoticed. Yet, by manipulating the air around us, it quietly conditions the baseline conditions of our physical, mental, and emotional experience. From offices and libraries to contemporary art museums and shopping malls, climate control systems shore up the fantasy of a comfortable, self-contained body that does not have to reckon with temperature. At the same time that air conditioning makes temperature a non-issue in (some) people's daily lives, thermoception   or the sensory perception of temperature   is being carefully studied and exploited as a tool of marketing, social control, and labor management. \u003cbr\u003eYet air conditioning isn't for everybody- its reliance on carbon fuels divides the world into habitable, climate-controlled bubbles and increasingly uninhabitable environments where AC is unavailable. Hsuan Hsu's \u003ci\u003eAir Conditioning\u003c\/i\u003e explores questions about culture, ethics, ecology, and social justice raised by the history and uneven distribution of climate controlling technologies.\u003cbr\u003eObject Lessons is published in partnership with an essay series in \u003ci\u003eThe Atlantic.\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"Ships in 10 to 15 days","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46631872463006,"sku":"UBD-9781501377822","price":19.78,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0400\/9043\/5742\/files\/9781501377822.jpg?v=1774310773","url":"https:\/\/classicbargains.com.au\/products\/9781501377822","provider":"Classic Bargains Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}