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Glasses

Object Lessons (Related to this series)

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Bloomsbury presents Glasses by Adam Geczy, read by Todd Boyce.

Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.

Glasses are among the oldest and most commonplace prosthetics we have invented. But what does it mean to wear glasses? There is more to the answer than correcting vision. Glasses alter, enhance, and shield the way that we view the world, and the way the world sees us.

Everyone has encounters with glasses, passively or actively, from reading glasses to sunglasses. At times they are the main identifiers in a face (think John Lennon), and they signify extremes from nerdy and brainy to cool and sleazy. They are alternately the most mundane of things on our bodies and potentially the most glamorous.

Adam Geczy explores this most pervasive and accessible accessory and shows that it is both a conduit to and a barrier between ourselves and the world outside.

Critics Review

Glasses offers an insightful and engaging reflection on optics as aesthetics, asking what it means to look, and to be looked at, through and within lenses. With clarity and ease, it explores how glasses shape not only what we see but how we are seen. Sharp, focused, and full of vision.
Ania Malinowska, author of Cutting up Books: A Wrting Method in Critical Thinking (2026)
A brisk pop meditation and manifesto, Adam Geczy's Glasses finds the poetry in prosthesis. As an unrepentant four-eyed nerd myself, I loved it.
Jessica Glasscock, author of Making a Spectacle: A Fashionable History of Eyewear (2021)
Geczy weaves facts about and references to glasses in history, literature, cinema, fashion and popular culture....Whether your own specs are a sometimes-accessory or a lifeline, you're sure to find something fascinating in this book.
Hippocampus Magazine
Author Adam Geczy
Narrator Todd Boyce
Series Object Lessons
Duration 3 hours and 25 minutes
Release Date
ISBN 9798216477433
Format Audiobook
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing
Genre Material culture, Philosophy: aesthetics, Prosthetics, Semiotics / semiology
Availability AU, GB, IE, US

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