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Is it time to bring back "the study"?
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August 21st, 2010
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Once upon a time when I was a young boy, my dad had a room with a desk where he tended to financial matters and kept important papers and books. We called this room “the study.”
Somewhere along the way everyone got obsessed with their careers and the miracles of the future and “the study” ceded to “the office” replete with giant boxes of electronics and the transhuman reveilles of Windows 95 bootups, post industrial rhythms of dial up modems, and fax machines chirping and whirring like mechanical birds.
Today, “the office” is a good deal cleaner, sleeker, and quieter, and many of us are longing to disconnect from screens and enjoy less distracted sessions of leisure and/or contemplation.
Still, the idea of “the study” seems to have lost it’s authority. It became such persona non grata with the advent of the office that it wouldn’t be unreasonable to personify the term as an antiquated boob whose only hope for resurgence is in irony and faux nostalgia, like a porn mustache on a 20 year old.
Is it time to bring back “the study”? Can I use the term without quizzical looks or the fear of ridicule?
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