RELATED TERMS: Design History; Modernity; Modernity and Coloniality; As noted in the Design History post, Lauren Williams (2019) posits an integral relationship among neoliberalism, design and racism in arguing that, “Racism and design have always supported capitalism, but as neoliberalization drives innovations on both, post-raciality and Design Thinking emerge, respectively, as new formations.” How canContinue reading “Design History and Racialisation [Footnote]”
Category Archives: Design and History
Worldlessness #1
RELATED TERMS: World; World-as-Milieu; World-Building; Worldlessness #2: Worldlessness and Design; Worldlessness #3: Saving the world / at the end of / the world / is not enough A Possible Phenomenology of the Anonymous, the Invisible, the Im-material and the Im-mediate It was noted in The Paradox of the Anonymous that Dan Hancox (2025) projectively andContinue reading “Worldlessness #1”
Technology, Process Knowledge, Temporality and Design
RELATED TERMS: Hypomnesis, Hypermnesis and Anamnesis; Methodology and Method; Practice Dan Wang (2025: 71) distinguishes among three meanings of technology. The first is technologies as tools, for example, the pots, pans, knives, ovens and so on required to prepare a meal. Second, technologies can operate as explicit means of instruction, for example, the recipes, blueprintsContinue reading “Technology, Process Knowledge, Temporality and Design”
History
RELATED TERMS: Historicism; Historical materialism – Marxism; “History and ethnology became distinct disciplines only in the mid-nineteenth century, when evolutionism, triumphant even before Darwin, caused the study of developed societies to part company with the investigation of so-called primitive societies. Previously, history had embraced all societies, but with the emergence of a consciousness of progress, history limitedContinue reading “History”
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