Object Lessons is a series of short beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of
ordinary things. Cropping up everywhere whether steel latticework or tapered monopoles
encrusted with fiberglass antennas cell towers raise up high into the air the communications
equipment that channels our calls texts and downloads. For security reasons their locations
are never advertised. But it's our romantic notions of connectivity that hide them in plain
sight. We want the network to be invisible ethereal and ubiquitous. The cell tower stands as
a challenge to these desires. Object Lessons is published in partnership with an essay series
in The Atlantic.
