A New Design Philosophy: An Introduction to DefuturingFry has not come to reform current thinking but to replace it. The renowned Australian design theorist offers a recreated form of practical reason and the ontological theory of design for architects, designers, historians, theorists, and even readers who have not been expose to the notion of a desig |
Contents
AN OPENING | 19 |
HISTORY MODERNITY AND DEFUTURING | 59 |
a world production | 69 |
Dwelling in streamlined America | 105 |
Europe | 146 |
FOUR LOCATIONS | 171 |
Time and China | 205 |
Televisual inhuman design | 227 |
The autonomic technocentricity | 252 |
Concluding impressions | 283 |
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