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AIR CONDITIONING - HSUAN L HSU TASCHENBUCH

Object Lessons is a series of short  beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of
ordinary things. Air 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. Yet 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 Air Conditioning explores questions about
culture  ethics  ecology  and social justice raised by the history and uneven distribution of
climate controlling technologies. Object Lessons is published in partnership with an essay
series in The Atlantic.

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