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Politics of things : a critical approach through design /

In a state of ontological crisis, all boundaries have been ruptured between nature and culture, human and machine, and object and subject. We find ourselves exhaustively tackling the turmoil of our own designed circumstances, as we emerge to become extensions of the extensions that we built. In this...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Christensen, Michelle (Author)
Corporate Author:	Board of International Research in Design
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Basel, Switzerland : Birkhäuser, [2019]
Subjects:	Design > Philosophy. Design > Psychological aspects. Architectural design.

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