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Design Culture Reader

English · Hardback

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Zusatztext '[An] attempt to push the concept of design into new territories... It will certainly challenge its readers to question any assumptions they may have about design culture and to reconstitute their understanding with a broader! richer frame of reference. If that is the purpose of a reader! then Highmore's will certainly be a resounding success.' -Journal of Design History Informationen zum Autor Ben Highmore is Reader in Media and Cultural Studies at the University of Sussex. He is the author of Everyday Life and Cultural Theory, Cityscapes and editor of The Everyday Life Reader and is the reviews editor of New Formations . Klappentext The Design Culture Reader brings together a rich and diverse selection of texts for the purpose of re-imagining the study of design for the 21st Century. Zusammenfassung The Design Culture Reader brings together a rich and diverse selection of texts for the purpose of re-imagining the study of design for the 21st Century. Inhaltsverzeichnis Section 1: Materials and Methods 1. Karl Marx (1867) 'The Fetishism of the Commodity and its Secret'. 2. Jonathan Crary (1989) 'Spectacle, Attention, Counter-Memory'. 3. Vilem Flusser (1993) 'About the word Design'. 4. Michael Moon, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, Benjamin Gianni and Scott Weir (1994) 'Queers in (Single-Family) Space'. 5. Pauline Madge (1997) 'Ecological Design: A New Critique'. 6. Hal Foster (2002) 'The ABCs of Contemporary Design'. Section 2: Actors and Agents 7. Marcel Mauss (1934) 'Techniques of the Body'. 8. Michel Foucault (1982) 'Space, Knowledge, and Power'. 9. Friedrich A. Kittler (1986) 'Introduction' to Gramophone, Film, Typewriter. 10. Lana F. Rakow (1988) 'Women and the Telephone: the gendering of a communication technology'. 11. Ellen Lupton (1996) 'Power Tool for the Dining Room: The Electric Carving Knife'. 12. Tobin Siebers (2003) 'What can disability studies learn from the culture wars?' Section 3: Object Life 13. Stuart Cosgrove (1984) 'The Zoot-Suit and Style Warfare'. 14. Mihay Csikszentmihalyi (1991) 'Design and Order in Everyday Life'. 15. Celik, Zeynep (1996) 'Gendered Spaces in Colonial Algiers'. 16. Celine Rosselin (1999) 'The Ins and Outs of the Hall: A Parisian Example'. 17. Svetlana Boym (2001) 'Immigrant Souvenirs'. Section 4: Sense and Sensibilities 18. Wolfgang Schivelbusch (1983) 'Shop Windows'. 19. Nicholson Baker (1986) from The Mezzanine. 20. C. Nadia Seremetakis (1996) 'The Memory of the Senses, Part 1: Marks of the Transitory'. 21. Koichi Iwabuchi (1998) 'Marketing "Japan": Japanese cultural presence under a global gaze'. 22. Jonathan Sterne (2003) 'Hello'. Section 5: Designing (in) the World 23. John McHale (1969) 'An Ecological Overview'. 24. Krzysztof Wodiczko (1999) 'Designing for the City of Strangers'. 25. Celeste Olalquiaga (1999) 'The Crystal Palace'. 26. Tony Fry (1999) 'From War to Warring' 27. Ashoke Chatterjee (2005) 'Design in India: The Experience of Transition' Section 6: Design Time 28. Siegfried Giedion (1948) 'Anonymous History' 29. Evan Watkins (1993) 'Social Position and the Art of Automobile Maintenance' 30. Michel Serres (with Bruno Latour) (1995) 'The Past is no longer out-of-date' 31. N. Katherine Hayles (1999) 'The materiality of informatics: Audiotape and Its Cultural 32. Peter Hitchcock (2003) 'Chronotope of the Shoe' ...

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Authors Ben Highmore, Ben (EDT) Highmore, Ben (University of Sussex Highmore, Highmore Ben
Assisted by Ben Highmore (Editor), Ben (University of Sussex Highmore (Editor), Highmore Ben (Editor)
Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd.
 
Languages English
Product format Hardback
Released 08.08.2008
 
EAN 9780415403559
ISBN 978-0-415-40355-9
No. of pages 380
Dimensions 178 mm x 248 mm x 25 mm
Subjects Humanities, art, music > Art > Interior design, design
Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories

Cultural Studies, Product Design, DESIGN / Product, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social

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