Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. The electric candle and faux fur, coffee substitutes and meat analogues, Obama impersonators, prosthetics. Imitation this, false that. Humans have been replacing and improving upon the real thing for millennia – from wooden toes found on Egyptian mummies to the Luxor pyramid in Las Vegas. So why do people have such disdain for so-called “fakes”? Kati Stevens's Fake discusses the strange history of imitations, as well as our ever-changing psychological and socioeconomic relationships with them. After all, fakes aren't going anywhere; they seem to be going everywhere. Object Lessons is published in partnership with an essay series in The Atlantic.
Author(s): Stevens Kati Stevens
Series: Object Lessons
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic/Bloomsbury Publishing
Year: 2019
Language: English
Pages: 161
Tags: Forgery, Product Counterfeiting, Counterfeits And Counterfeiting
TITLE PAGE......Page 8
COPYRIGHT PAGE......Page 9
CONTENTS......Page 12
CHAPTER 1: THE START OF SOMETHING FAKE......Page 14
Who’s a phony?......Page 15
CHAPTER 2: THAT WHICH IS FAKE MAY NEVER DIE......Page 22
CHAPTER 3: QUORN FOR LUNCH; OREOS FOR DESSERT......Page 34
That red letter “E”......Page 38
Cali-Quorn-Ication......Page 49
CHAPTER 4: WHAT WAS NEVER REAL CAN(not) BE FAKED......Page 56
Ada Louise Huxtable and Jean Baudrillard in the escape room......Page 61
CHAPTER 5: HIPPOPOTAMUS TEETH......Page 80
Lived reality and Edward Scissorhands......Page 91
The future corporeal......Page 97
CHAPTER 6: DAVIDS......Page 104
To assume the voice of......Page 106
Klone......Page 113
γνῶθι σεαυτόν......Page 119
CHAPTER 7: OVID AND THE REAL GIRL......Page 122
CHAPTER 8: THE START OF SOMETHING FAKE, PART 2......Page 136
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS......Page 142
Chapter 2......Page 144
Chapter 3......Page 145
Chapter 5......Page 148
Chapter 7......Page 150
Chapter 8......Page 151
INDEX......Page 152
