Making doorbells ring
David Trotter: Pushing Buttons, 22 November 2018
Power Button: A History of Pleasure, Panic and the Politics of Pushing
by Rachel Plotnick.
MIT, 424 pp., £30, October 2018,978 0 262 03823 2 Show More
by Rachel Plotnick.
MIT, 424 pp., £30, October 2018,
“... while understanding only too well why he might want to dawdle. Chaplin doesn’t feature in Rachel Plotnick’s engrossing cultural history of the advent of the electric button, but the wealth of evidence she has amassed goes a long way towards explaining why he was interested in staunchly resisted subservience to remote control. By the ... ”
