{"product_id":"9781350527782","title":"Deep History of Dress Fashion's Evolution with Human Cognition and Culture","description":"\u003ch1\u003eDeep History of Dress\u003c\/h1\u003e\u003ch2\u003eFashion's Evolution with Human Cognition and Culture\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003ch3\u003eOtto Von Busch\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cb\u003eDesign \/ Fashion \u0026amp; Accessories\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFour thousand years ago in Babylon, a teenage scribe named Iddin-Sin wrote an indignant letter to his mother: everyone else's clothes get better every year, but his are getting worse. This brief complaint - our earliest known fashion grievance - becomes the starting point for a new history of dress.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eThe Deep History of Dress\u003c\/i\u003e, Otto von Busch reads Iddin-Sin's letter line by line, against the backdrop of Mesopotamian cities, textile trade, law, and schooling, to suggest fashion runs deeper in Western culture than previously thought. Drawing on anthropology, sociology, and the life sciences, he argues that fashion is not a recent, shallow invention of capitalism but a deep human organ of social sensing-a way we feel hierarchy, belonging, desire, and love on the social skin of our bodies.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom the deep history of cuneiform tablets to today, fashion appears here not as artifice or vanity but as a vital force-a social form in motion, a cognitive dynamic, a membrane between body and world, and a living record of civilization's pulse. Fashion is a symbiotic organ that has grown with us, shaped us, and dreamed alongside us since the dawn of history.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eOtto von Busch\u003c\/b\u003e is Professor of Integrated Design at Parsons School of Design, USA. His publications include \u003ci\u003eThe Psychopolitics of Fashion\u003c\/i\u003e (2020), \u003ci\u003eThe Dharma of Fashion\u003c\/i\u003e (2020), \u003ci\u003eMaking Trouble: Design and Material Activism\u003c\/i\u003e (2022), the co-edited volume \u003ci\u003eSilhouettes of the Soul\u003c\/i\u003e (with Jeanine Viau, 2022), the co-authored \u003ci\u003eThe Corruption of Co-Design: Political and Social Conflicts in Participatory Design Thinking\u003c\/i\u003e (with Karl Palmås, 2023), and \u003ci\u003eThe Design Comedy: The Descent Through Inferno\u003c\/i\u003e (2025).\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePublication Date: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e07 January 2027\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eBloomsbury Academic\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eImprint: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eBloomsbury Visual Arts\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eISBN-13: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e9781350527782\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eFormat: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eHardback\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePage Count: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e192\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eWeight (oz): \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e16.0\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/table\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Academic","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51936237289612,"sku":"9781350527782","price":90.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0710\/9545\/1788\/files\/getimage_2424288f-542b-432e-90b2-8f05b6e6c9fd.jpg?v=1786016125","url":"https:\/\/lateknightbooks.com\/products\/9781350527782","provider":"Late Knight Books and Services, LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}