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

Rust: its happening all the time, all around us. We cover it up. We ignore it. Jean-Michel Rabatés Rust takes on the multitudinous meanings that this oxidized substance can hold, and shows how technology can bleed into biology and ecology. Rust blends eco-criticism with a post-Benjaminian allegorization of technology, ranging across art, autobiography, and science studies to explore the authors own fascination for peeling paints and rusty metal sheets as the interpenetration between the organic and the inorganic.