Pluperfect PDA (10)

By: Joshua Glenn
November 8, 2011

Tenth in an occasional series.

This daguerreotype, circa 1850, found in Flickr user lisby1’s photostream, shows a woman silencing her buzzing mobile phone.

Ringtone: “Ring, Ring, de Banjo”

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SIMILAR HILOBROW SERIES: DOUBLE EXPOSURE — the stratagems of Middlebrow | EGGHEAD — a gallery | FITTING SHOES — famous literary footwear | LATF HIPSTER | PANTENE MEME — a found gallery | SHOCKING BLOCKING — cinematic blocking

Categories

Haw-Haw, Sci-Fi, Spectacles, Uncanny

Tags

pluperfect-PDA, sf, time travel

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Josh Glenn, HILOBROW's editor, is a principal of the commercial semiotics agency Semiovox. He is co-author and/or co-editor of several books, including The Idler's Glossary, Significant Objects, and the bestselling family activities guide UNBORED. In the ’00s, Josh was a columnist and blogger for the Boston Globe's IDEAS section; in the ’90s, he published the zine/journal Hermenaut. He lives in Boston.