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    Driver's License by Castile, Meredith;

    Series: Object Lessons;

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    Estimated delivery time: In stock at the publisher, but not at Prospero's office. Delivery time approx. 3-5 weeks.
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    Product details:

    • Publisher Bloomsbury Academic
    • Date of Publication 29 January 2015
    • Number of Volumes Paperback

    • ISBN 9781628929133
    • Binding Paperback
    • No. of pages160 pages
    • Size 164x120x14 mm
    • Weight 160 g
    • Language English
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    Long description:

    Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.

    A classic teenage fetish object, the American driver's license has long symbolized freedom and mobility in a nation whose design assumes car travel and whose vastness rivals continents. It is youth's pass to regulated vice-cigarettes, bars, tattoo parlors, casinos, strip joints, music venues, guns. In its more recent history, the license has become increasingly associated with freedom's flipside: screening. The airport's heightened security checkpoint. Controversial ID voting laws. Federally mandated, anti-terrorist driver's license re-designs. The driver's license encapsulates the contradictory values and practices of contemporary American culture-freedom and security, mobility and checkpoints, self-definition and standardization, democracy and exclusion, superficiality and intimacy, the stable self and the self in flux.

    Object Lessons is published in partnership with an essay series in The Atlantic.

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    Table of Contents:

    America

    Fake

    Design

    Teen

    Identity

    Civics

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