{"product_id":"living-rooms","title":"Living Rooms","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\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?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e[publisher's note]\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Peninsula Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57357885997396,"sku":"A8B-31864","price":16.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1072\/9609\/6596\/files\/Num_C3_A9riser_2044_8f99b7d7-9a89-43f5-b41b-93826b907444.jpg?v=1790813302","url":"https:\/\/after8books.com\/products\/living-rooms","provider":"After 8 Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}