Extinct: A Compendium of Obsolete Objects
- Length: 400 pages
- Edition: 1
- Language: English
- Publisher: Reaktion Books
- Publication Date: 2021-12-21
- ISBN-10: 1789144523
- ISBN-13: 9781789144529
- Sales Rank: #0 (See Top 100 Books)
Blending architecture, design, and technology, a visual tour through futures past via the objects we have replaced, left behind, and forgotten.
So-called extinct objects are those that were imagined but were never in use, or that existed but are now unused—superseded, unfashionable, or simply forgotten. Extinct gathers together an exceptional range of artists, curators, architects, critics, and academics, including Hal Foster, Barry Bergdoll, Deyan Sudjic, Tacita Dean, Emily Orr, Richard Wentworth, and many more. In eighty-five essays, contributors nominate “extinct” objects and address them in a series of short, vivid, sometimes personal accounts, speaking not only of obsolete technologies, but of other ways of thinking, making, and interacting with the world. Extinct is filled with curious, half-remembered objects, each one evoking a future that never came to pass. It is also a visual treat, full of interest and delight.
Cover Title Page Copyright Contents Introduction Acoustic Location Device Action Office Acoustic Area Conditioner: The ‘Maskitball’ Air-curtain Roof All-plastic House Arsenic Wallpaper Arundel Print Asbestos-cement Rondavel Ashtray Atmospheric Railway Cab-fare Map Central Heating Chaparral 2J: The ‘Sucker Car’ Chatelaine The Clapper Close-constraint Key Concorde ConvAirCar Cybernetic Anthropomorphic Machines Cybersyn Cyclegraph Cyclops 1 Dougong Dymaxion House Edison’s Anti-gravitation Under-clothing Electrotype Pattern Fisher-Price Peg Figures Flashcube Flying Boat Glass Lantern Slide Globe of Mars High-pressure Water Mains House Environment ‘Hummingbird’ Taxi Incandescent Light Bulb Integrated Radio/TV Cabinet Invacar: The ‘Invalid Carriage’ Kodachrome Letraset Leucotome Manchester Pail System: ‘Dolly Vardens’ Mechanical Polygraph Medical Wax Model Memo Milk Spoon MiniDisc Minitel Moon Towers Nikini ‘No Nonsense’ Fountain Pen North Bucks Monorail City Notgeld Oil from Coal Optical Telegraph Paper Aeroplane Ticket Paper Dress Pasilalinic-sympathetic Compass Phase-change Chemical Heat-storage Barrel Player Piano Pneumatic Postal System Polaroid SX-70 Public Standards of Length Pyrophone Realistic Wax Mannequin Rotring, Letratone, MiniCAD Scaphander: ‘Man-boat’ Scarificator Serving Hatch Sinclair C5 Skirt Grip Slide Rule Slotted Screwdriver Space Frame Stanley 55 Combination Plane Telephone Table Teletype Théâtrophone Think City Electric Vehicle Trombe Wall T-shirt Plastic Bag Ultratemp® Roasting Rack UV-radiated Artificial Beach Vertical Filing Cabinet Water Bag Writing Case Zeppelin Biographies References and Further Reading Acknowledgements Photo Acknowledgements
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