RELATED TERMS: Disciplinary Societies and Societies of Control The question underlying this post is whether design practices are carried along by the shift proposed by Byung-Chul Han (2015), the impetus coming from elsewhere, or are they highly active proponents and drivers of the change, providing the materials for depressive evaluations of oneself, compulsive inattentiveness orContinue reading “Burnout Society”
Category Archives: Design and Society
Libidinal Economy – Part 1
RELATED TERMS: Design, Axiology and Value – Part 1; Fordism and Post-Fordism; Disciplinary Societies and Societies of Control “It is said that the reader of an American magazine was so disturbed by an article on the subject of smoking and cancer that he decided to give up reading.” (Anecdote cited by Tim Harford, 2025) InContinue reading “Libidinal Economy – Part 1”
Bauhaus
RELATED TERMS: Hochschule für Gestaltung; Black Mountain College; Gesamtkunstwerk The Bauhaus, a revolutionary art and design school, opened in 1919 under the architect Walter Gropius (1883–1969). He remained director until 1928. In all, there were three directors of the Bauhaus, all of them architects. After Gropius, Hannes Meyer (1889–1954) held the directorship between 1928 and 1930Continue reading “Bauhaus”
Imaginary
RELATED TERMS: Storyworld; Iconic Designs, Critical Designs The imaginary mediates between abstract conception and material realisation. The storyworld, for example, takes place in the imaginary. In design practices, the imaginary does not carry a negative connotation in the sense of being a set of deceptive illusions mystifying or obscuring a real. As Adams and SmithContinue reading “Imaginary”
Apparatus – Dispositif
RELATED TERMS: Actor-Network Theory; Collage, Montage, Assemblage and Bricolage; Biopolitics and Biopower; Cinema and Film Theory; Disciplinary Societies and Societies of Control; Distribution of the Sensible; Genealogy – Nietzsche; Practice ” ‘échafaudage‘ is the term Axelos suggests best translates the Heideggerian notion of das Ge-stell, usually translated as ‘en-framing,’ or, in French, as arraissonment orContinue reading “Apparatus – Dispositif”
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