Are we human? : notes on an archaeology of design /
"The question "are we human?" is both urgent and ancient. Beatriz Colomina and Mark Wigley offer a multi-layered exploration of the intimate relationship between human and design. Their field notes offer an archaeology of the way design has gone viral and is now bigger than the world....
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| Language: | English |
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Zürich, Switzerland :
Lars Mul̈ler Publishers,
[2016]
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Table of Contents:
- The mirror of design : spiderwebs, sediments radiation, extinction self-surveillance
- The plastic human : plasticity, strange artifacts interface
- Blows of design : technofossils, prehistory genetic continuum hands, ornament sexual selection
- The invention of the human : tools, brain, curiosity
- The ornamental species : domestication, beads, networks, thinking strings, useless things
- New from nowhere : mechanical life, good design, morality, failure toys, functionalsim
- Good design is an anesthetic : smoothness, shock, smile shock absorber, nerves
- The design of health : dissection, x-ray, tuberculosis, fatigue, allergies, autoimmune burnout
- Human-centered design : camping, artificial limbs biology, survival, self-destruction, primal scene
- The frictionless silhouette : normal, human engineering, automaton biotechnique, discipline
- Designing the body : bodybuilding, hedonism nudism, libido, stomach psyche
- Design as perversion : fetishism, bondage voyeurism, erotica scatology, pedophilia
- Designing a ghost : scale figure, protohumans clothing, lurking shadows
- The unstable body : microbiome, prosthetics plastic surgery, drugs biodesign, chimera
- Homo cellular : intimacy, connectivity shelter, computation selfie, surveillance
- Design in 2 seconds : social media, avatar hybrid space, the bed postlabor, self-design.