{"product_id":"living-rooms-sam-johnson-schlee","title":"Living Rooms - Sam Johnson-Schlee","description":"In this radical and elegiac essay, Sam Johnson-Schlee invites readers to consider the dreams and fantasies we have about our homes, and their underlying reality.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eLiving Rooms\u003c\/em\u003e blends history, theory, and memoir as it moves between the colonial trade in house plants, Proustian reminiscence, and razor-sharp critique of rentier capitalism. Johnson-Schlee suggests that, by looking closely at the places where we live, we can confront political realities that extend out into the world.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eIn the way we furnish our homes, might we be unconsciously imagining a different kind of life? In the way we arrange our sofas, picture frames, and our pot plants, are we dreaming of a better world? And what would it mean to reject the notion that a house should be a commodity, and to embrace the idea of a truly living room?\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ePeninsula Press, 2022\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eSoftcover, 160pp\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e197 x 130mm \u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e","brand":"Tenderbooks","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44686766375130,"sku":"","price":10.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0488\/8029\/files\/Tenderbooks-16_e391cc29-affa-4f5d-b8f7-d99dd5bd108c.jpg?v=1710870401","url":"https:\/\/tenderbooks.live\/products\/living-rooms-sam-johnson-schlee","provider":"Tenderbooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}