Thomas Thwaites

The Toaster Project: Or a Heroic Attempt to Build a Simple Electric Appliance from Scratch (2011)

Cleverly disguised as simple design writing, this book is actually a secret and subtle philosophical text. It can be, and I think should be, read as a story about the failure of humanity to relate to, empathize with and understand their surroundings. And this failure is not just an industrial or ...