Det mærkværdige og skøre eventyr om brødristeren, symaskinen og folk, der bruger dem

The Intriguing Adventure of the Toaster, the Sewing Machine and the People who Use Them (L’étrange et folle aventure du grille-pain, de la machine à coudre et des gens qui s’en servent) opens up everyday objects—the things one finds by the hundred in every occidental household, that one uses without knowing how they work. The book examines what these objects are made of, where they come from, and what they do to us. Each object bears its share of impudence and design, of improvisation and standardization, of conformism and subversion. Rather than the grand narrative of innovation too often ethnocentric and progress-driven—the authors of this brief history of the ordinary focus on the stories of uses. A series of curious pacts between humans and objects thus reveals itself. This slender volume will open readers’ eyes to the
material world surrounding them.