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Defuturing : a new design philosophy

Tony Fry
Print Book, English, 2020
Bloomsbury Visual Arts, London, 2020
XXXx, 255 p. : ill. ; 24 cm
9781350089532, 9781350089570, 9781350089549, 1350089532, 1350089575, 1350089540
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List of imagesTony Fry's Defuturing: A new design philosophy by Clive DilnotPreface to the 2020 editionPreface to the original editionINTRODUCTIONAn introductory lexicographical reviewDesignSustain-ability and unsustainabilityDefuturingRelationalityGuided ReadingPART I: An opening1. TECHNOLOGY, WARRING AND THE CRISIS OF HISTORYTechnology in fluxFrom structure and from technéFrom war to warringThe crisis of the crisis of historyPART II: History, modernity and defuturing2. MADE IN AMERICA: A WORLD PRODUCTIONAmericaThen and nowProductivism and a history of world making3. DWELLING IN STREAMLINES AMERICAStreamlining DesignThe New York World's FairUtopia: A designing idea4. TOTAL DESIGN: EUROPEThe Bauhaus, as toldThe Vkhutemas postscriptPART III: One point: Four locations5. DESIGN AND THE BODY OF COMPETITIONThe bodyBodies of the bodyThe measure that measures the standardsOpenings as endings6. TIME AND CHINATimeThe years of 1926China: Four perspectives7. TELEVISUAL IN-HUMAN DESIGNThe televisualPerspectives and horizonsEcology of the image8. THE AUTONOMIC TECHNOCENTRICITY OF COMPUTERSThe reason machineThe force of designReiterations towards making decisionsCONCLUDING IMPRESSIONSBibliographyIndex
Edizione originale: A new design philosophy: an introduction to defuturing. Sydney : University of New South Wales, 1999