Jet Lag

By Christopher Lee, associate professor of history

In his latest book, Jet Lag, Associate Professor of History Christopher Lee explores the idea of jet lag—not as the mental and physical fatigue that results from airplane-induced time travel—but instead as a metaphor for the exhaustion that results from our increasingly accelerated, plugged-in world. Jet Lag is part of a series called Object Lessons, published by Bloomsbury. Each book focuses on an ordinary object, like glass, dust, hair, remote control, or an abstract idea, like silence or traffic.