{"product_id":"carousel-sarah-minor-9780300284331","title":"Carousel: An Essay on Seeing","description":"\u003cb\u003eFrom an award-winning writer, a personal and critical reflection on the human desire to see and be seen\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eCarousel\u003c\/i\u003e opens as a professor begins delivering a slide lecture in a darkened room. Her students are visible on Zoom, internet in their pockets, screens on their wrists, seeing more than students ever could before. But what, in fact, do they see? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In the spirit of John Berger's \u003ci\u003eWays of Seeing\u003c\/i\u003e, Sarah Minor's \u003ci\u003eCarousel \u003c\/i\u003econsiders how the pursuit of panoramic vision frames power, distorts reality, and implicates both viewer and subject. Across short, immersive sections blending history and memoir, close looking and confession, educator and writer Minor masterfully fuses the slide carousel with the lyric essay. As professor-narrator she invites us to see across time, guiding us from the Bayeux Tapestry to surrealist paintings and Instagram reels, from hot-air balloons to drone warfare and the surveillance state. In language that captures the disorientation of that other carousel, the whirling carnival ride, Minor shows how the more we strive to see, the more we ultimately reveal ourselves.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Sarah Minor\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0300284330\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780300284331\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Yale University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/21\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 192\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover","brand":"Sarah Minor","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":47965476585727,"sku":"9780300284331","price":28.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_5d9e2572-d1bc-4af2-bead-08ec12f00736.jpg?v=1767280827","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/carousel-sarah-minor-9780300284331","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}