Fake

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Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. The electric candle and faux fur, coffee substitutes and meat analogues, Obama impersonators, prosthetics. Imitation this, false that. Humans have been replacing and improving upon the real thing for millennia – from wooden toes found on Egyptian mummies to the Luxor pyramid in Las Vegas. So why do people have such disdain for so-called “fakes”? Kati Stevens's Fake discusses the strange history of imitations, as well as our ever-changing psychological and socioeconomic relationships with them. After all, fakes aren't going anywhere; they seem to be going everywhere. Object Lessons is published in partnership with an essay series in The Atlantic. TITLE PAGE......Page 8 COPYRIGHT PAGE......Page 9 CONTENTS......Page 12 CHAPTER 1: THE START OF SOMETHING FAKE......Page 14 Who’s a phony?......Page 15 CHAPTER 2: THAT WHICH IS FAKE MAY NEVER DIE......Page 22 CHAPTER 3: QUORN FOR LUNCH; OREOS FOR DESSERT......Page 34 That red letter “E”......Page 38 Cali-Quorn-Ication......Page 49 CHAPTER 4: WHAT WAS NEVER REAL CAN(not) BE FAKED......Page 56 Ada Louise Huxtable and Jean Baudrillard in the escape room......Page 61 CHAPTER 5: HIPPOPOTAMUS TEETH......Page 80 Lived reality and Edward Scissorhands......Page 91 The future corporeal......Page 97 CHAPTER 6: DAVIDS......Page 104 To assume the voice of......Page 106 Klone......Page 113 γνῶθι σεαυτόν......Page 119 CHAPTER 7: OVID AND THE REAL GIRL......Page 122 CHAPTER 8: THE START OF SOMETHING FAKE, PART 2......Page 136 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS......Page 142 Chapter 2......Page 144 Chapter 3......Page 145 Chapter 5......Page 148 Chapter 7......Page 150 Chapter 8......Page 151 INDEX......Page 152