The Love of Analog: Meditations on Value

The Love of Analog: Meditations on Value - Paperback

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The Love of Analog: Meditations on Value - Paperback

The Love of Analog: Meditations on Value - Paperback

by Darren Hudson Hick
$19.95
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Vinyl records. Board games. Paperback books. Film. A philosopher dives into the analog world to show what it offers us and what it says about our values.

Packed with first-person anecdotes, hand-drawn illustrations, and extensive scholarship, Darren Hudson Hick takes us through the pleasure of board games and jigsaw puzzles and inside the values of materiality, care, and agency. Hick moves from pinball machines and first editions to meditative cleaning and pottery to introduce us to key ideas in value theory, everyday aesthetics, virtue theory, and care ethics, alongside findings from psychology, anthropology, and sociology.

What accounts for the resurgence of analog media? Why are we buying all this stuff? Hick approaches these questions from a pragmatist perspective - a view that demands drawing on personal experience to better understand the values that pervade our daily lives. The result is a lively and informed exploration of material culture that tells us a surprising amount about ourselves and how we live.

Whenever we set up a board game, dust a record, load a roll of film, or sit down with a coloring book, we get to think about what we value. The Love of Analog is a study in what's important to us. It's a celebration of being human.
ISBN9781350612945
Author Darren Hudson Hick
PublisherBloomsbury Academic
GenrePhilosophy
FormatPaperback
PublishedSeptember 2026
LanguageENG- English
Pages176
Weight1.0 lb
Target AudienceAdults
Print SizeStandard Print

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About Darren Hudson Hick

Darren Hudson Hick is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Furman University, USA. He is the author of Introducing Aesthetics and the Philosophy of Art, 3rd Edition (Bloomsbury, 2023).

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