{"product_id":"the-ornament-of-distance-the-work-of-humans-in-an-age-of-mechanical-reproduction-9798196488573","title":"The Ornament of Distance: The work of humans in an age of mechanical reproduction","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Patrick I. Pointer Stl | Giles Na Magaleen Bt\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Aesthetics\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Ornament of Distance\u003c\/b\u003e is a witty, searching, and unsettling book about what modern life does to the self when appearance begins to replace purpose, and visibility begins to replace reality.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGiles na Magaleen argues that we are increasingly taught to live not as souls, neighbours, citizens, or creatures, but as objects: to be displayed, optimised, sexualised, compared, rated, managed, and consumed. The body becomes a project. Speech becomes performance. Reputation becomes score. Identity becomes profile. The self becomes something to curate under the glare of constant exposure.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRanging across culture, technology, theology, philosophy, and everyday life, this book examines spectacle, platforms, prestige, pornography in its widest sense, social scoring, gamification, and the quiet humiliations of being made permanently visible and permanently comparable.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut \u003cb\u003eThe Ornament of Distance\u003c\/b\u003e is not just a diagnosis. It is also an argument for recovery: through friendship, memory, locality, liturgy, fidelity, patience, rest, gratitude, and the discipline of enough. Against a world of surfaces, Giles offers a defence of depth. Against the managed self, he recovers the human being as creature, gift, and presence.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSharp, humane, and often very funny, this is a book for readers who suspect that modern culture is making people easier to market, easier to measure, and harder to love.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Independently Published","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47969372733591,"sku":"9798196488573","price":1275.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9798196488573.webp?v=1782921615","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/the-ornament-of-distance-the-work-of-humans-in-an-age-of-mechanical-reproduction-9798196488573","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}