Description: "Shows how understanding the bicycle requires investigating technological history, urban planning, and social norms, as well as both natural and human law."--
Brief description: Christopher Schaberg is Director of the Program in Public Scholarship at Washington University in St. Louis, USA, and the author of The Textual Life of Airports (2012), The End of Airports (2015), Airportness (2017), The Work of Literature in an Age of Post-Truth (2018), Searching for the Anthropocene (2019), Pedagogy of the Depressed (2021), and Adventure: An Argument for Limits (2023), all published by Bloomsbury. He is also the founding co-editor (with Ian Bogost) of Bloomsbury's Object Lessons book series.
Review Quotes: "In his insightful contribution to the Object Lessons series, Jonathan Maskit dives deep into this great yet humble human invention and its role in transportation. After reading Bicycle, you'll never think of cycling the same way again" --Sanna Lehtinen, Research Fellow, School of Arts, Design, and Architecture, Aalto University, Finland