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Are we human? : notes on an archaeology of design
- Title
- Are we human? : notes on an archaeology of design / by Beatriz Colomina & Mark Wigley.
- Author
- Colomina, Beatriz
- Publication
- Zürich, Switzerland : Lars Mull̈er Publishers, [2016]
- ©2016
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- Additional Authors
- Description
- 285 pages : illustrations (some color), plans; 18 cm
- Summary
- "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. They range across the last few hundred thousand years and the last few seconds to scrutinize the uniquely plastic relation between brain and artifact. A vivid portrait emerges. Design becomes the way humans ask questions and thereby continuously redesign themselves"--
- Subject
- Note
- "Field notes from a continuous stream of conversations, classes, symposia, readings, interviews, site visits, meetings, walks, and meals during the last year and a half as we prepared the 3rd Istanbul Design Biennial"--Page [5].
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 276-281).
- 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.
- Call Number
- JQC 18-113
- ISBN
- 9783037785119
- 303778511X
- LCCN
- 2016593414
- OCLC
- 950450828
- Author
- Colomina, Beatriz, author.
- Title
- Are we human? : notes on an archaeology of design / by Beatriz Colomina & Mark Wigley.
- Publisher
- Zürich, Switzerland : Lars Mull̈er Publishers, [2016]
- Copyright Date
- ©2016
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 276-281).
- Added Author
- Wigley, Mark, author.Istanbul Tasarım Bienali (3rd : 2016 : Istanbul)
- Research Call Number
- JQC 18-113