Culture^2 Volume 1 : theorizing theory for the twenty-first century Volume 1 :
How to do cultural studies in the 21st century? This essay collection is not a handbook, encyclopedia, or a 'state of the field' compendium. Instead, it is a reflexive exercise in cultural studies, featuring fifteen accessible essays on a selection of critical key works published since 200...
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Critical by design? An introduction; Genealogies: What is a critical object? Design as "desubjugation" (after Foucault); The vitality of the negative: critical design between social philosophy and conceptual art; Ask what can be! Modal critique and design as drivers of accidence; What are the politics of ontological design? A critical reflection on the mutual becoming of "the human" and "the world"; Engaging in epistemic disobedience: on the decolonialization of design discourses; Unsettling individualized design practice through collaboration; "Ci concimiamo a vicenda": building support structures as part of design practice; Re-visioning pelvic care through design; Trojan horses: ambiguity as a critical design strategy; Grey design: critical practices of design at the peripheries of the discipline; The ineliminable aesthetic dimension of art; Design culture as critical practice; What might be the speculative social?; Biased design, or the misery of neutrality; Undesign and understanding; Epilogue: The life and death of critical and speculative design: post-disciplinarity, post-truth, post-self and post-capital; Appendix: Critical by design? The book's design as SF figures; List of Figures & Tables; Biographies; Imprint.
