How do technologies developed in the industrial revolution, along with the anxieties those inventions produced, shape our corporeal and social life today? Using eight products (the sleeping pill, the steam engine, eyeglasses, canned food, the condom, the watch, deodorant, and Listerine), the course explores the impact of industrialization on our daily lived experience. Eight lectures, based on a broad variety of visual sources and historical accounts, will help you understand the sources and nature of the power that mundane manufactured objects wield over our world. Couse will by taught by Sofia Grachova and Stephen Walsh.