Superhumanity : Design of the Self / Nick Axel, Beatriz Colomina, Nikolaus Hirsch, Anton Vidokle, Mark Wigley, editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Wigley, Mar, editor.

Vidokle, Anton, editor.

Hirsch, Nikolaus, editor.

Colomina, Beatriz, editor.

Axel, Nick, editor.

Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts, issuing body.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Self.

Design--Human factors.

Design.

Design--Psychological aspects.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (446 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis [Minnesota] : Printed and distributed by the University of Minnesota Press

Summary:

A wide-ranging and challenging exploration of design and how it engages with the self. The field of design has radically expanded. As a practice, design is no longer limited to the world of material objects but rather extends from carefully crafted individual styles and online identities to the surrounding galaxies of personal devices, new materials, interfaces, networks, systems, infrastructures, data, chemicals, organisms, and genetic codes. Superhumanity seeks to explore and challenge our understanding of "design" by engaging with and departing from the concept of the "self." This volume brings together more than fifty essays by leading scientists, artists, architects, designers, philosophers, historians, archaeologists, and anthropologists, originally disseminated online via e-flux Architecture between September 2016 and February 2017 on the invitation of the Third Istanbul Design Biennial. Probing the idea that we are and always have been continuously reshaped by the artifacts we shape, this book asks: Who designed the lives we live today? What are the forms of life we inhabit, and what new forms are currently being designed? Where are the sites, and what are the techniques, to design others? This vital and far-reaching collection of essays and images seeks to explore and reflect on the ways in which both the concept and practice of design are operative well beyond tangible objects, expanding into the depths of self and forms of life.

Contents:

Cover

Half Title

Title

Contents

Introduction

Self-Design, or Productive Narcissism Boris Groys

No You're Not Keller Easterling

Prescribing Reflection Brooke Holmes

Cardboard for Humanity Andrew Herscher

Carceral Architectures Mabel O. Wilson

Some Sketches on Vertical Geographies Trevor Paglen

Mass Gestaltung Zeynep Çelik Alexander

Are They Human? Eyal Weizman

Designer and Discarded Genomes Ruha Benjamin

Spaces of the Learning Self Tom Holert

History for an Empty Future Sylvia Lavin

Masters and Slaves Lydia Kallipoliti

On Snow Dancing Ina Blom

In the Skin of a Lion, a Leopard … a Man Lesley Lokko

As if by Design Raqs Media Collective

An Apology to Survivors MAP Office

Couple Format: The Identity between Love and Work Shumon Basar

Lesser Worlds Felicity D. Scott

Spatial Thought Daniel Birnbaum and Sven-Olov Wallenstein

Down with the World Tony Chakar

The One-Foot Shop Rupali Gupte and Prasad Shetty

Designer Sex Rubén Gallo

Storage Space Giuliana Bruno

Real Estate Porn

or, How to Liberate Us from Being Slaves of Our Own Houses Ingo Niermann

Our Heads Are Round, Our Hands Irregular Hu Fang

The Birth of Design Spyros Papapetros

Beyond the Gene Alexander Tarakhovsky

Aestheticization and Democratic Culture Juliane Rebentisch

Beyond the Self Jack Self

The Duck Is the Übermensch Chus Martínez

Amplified Humanity and the Architectural Criminal Lucia Allais

Facilities for Correction Francesca Hughes

In the Forest Ruins Paulo Tavares

After the Third End Ahmet Öðüt

Surrogacity: Just like James Franco Andrés Jaque

We Are Red Parakeets Mark Cousins

How to Kill People: A Problem of Design Hito Steyerl

Self-Engineering Franco "Bifo" Berardi

I Spy with My Machine Eye Liam Young.

Art without Death Arseny Zhilyaev in conversation with Anton Vidokle

Workplace Aesthetics Might Not Be Enough Liam Gillick

The Matter of Scale Pelin Tan

On Anthropolysis Benjamin H. Bratton

Blockchain Future States Simon Denny

Right-wing Spaces Stephan Trüby

Our Vectors, Ourselves Kali Stull and Etienne Turpin

Analysis: Synthesis Sophia Roosth

The Story of Peter Green Peter Chang Brian Kuan Wood

The Return of the Have-Lived Yongwoo Lee

"Or are we human beings?" Thomas Keenan

Biographies

Image Credits

Copyright.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

"Published in collaboration with the Graham Foundation."

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-4529-5787-8

OCLC:

1017098808