Title & Author:

Superhumanity : design of the self / Nick Axel, Beatriz Colomina, Nikolaus Hirsch, Anton Vidokle, Mark Wigley, Editors.

Publication:

[New York, N.Y.] : e-flux Architecture, [2018]
Minneapolis, MN : University of Minnesota Press, [2018]
©2018

Description:

443 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm

Notes:
"Published in collaboration with the Graham Foundation"--Colophon
"Superhumanity at the 3rd Istanbul Design Biennial was produced in cooperation with the Istanbul Design Biennial; the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea; the Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Zealand; and the Ernst Schering Foundation."--Colophon
Includes bibliographical references.
Introduction -- Self-design, or productive narcissism / Boris Groys -- No you're not / Keller Easterling -- Prescribing reflection / Brooke Holmes -- Cardboard for humanity / Andrew Herscher -- Carceral architectures / Mabel O. Wilson -- Some sketches on vertical geographies / Trevor Paglen -- Mass Gestaltung / Zeynep Çelik Alexander -- Are they human? / Eyal Weizman -- Designer and discarded genomes / Ruha Benjamin -- Spaces of the learning self / Tom Holert -- History for an empty future / Sylvia Lavin -- Masters and slaves / Lydia Kallipoliti -- On snow dancing / Ina Blom -- In the skin of a lion, a leopard...a man / Lesley Lokko -- As if by design / Raqs Media Collective -- An apology to survivors / MAP Office -- Couple format: the identity between love and work / Shumon Basar -- Lesser worlds / Felicity D. Scott -- Spatial thought / Daniel Birnbaum and Sven-Olov Wallenstein -- Down with the world / Tony Chakar -- The one-foot shop / Rupali Gupte and Prasad Shetty -- Designer sex / Rubén Gallo -- Storage space / Giuliana Bruno -- Real estate porn; or, how to liberate us from being slaves of our own houses / Ingo Niermann -- Our heads are round, our hands irregular / Hu Fang -- The birth of design / Spyros Papapetros -- Beyond the gene / Alexander Tarakhovsky -- Aestheticization and democratic culture / Juliane Rebentisch -- Beyond the self / Jack Self -- The duck is the Übermensch / Chus Martínez -- Amplified humanity and the architectural criminal / Lucia Allais -- Facilities for correction / Francesca Hughes -- In the forest ruins / Paulo Tavares -- After the third end / Ahmet Öǧüt -- Surrogacity: just like James Franco / Andrés Jaque -- We are red parakeets / Mark Cousins -- How to kill people: a problem of design / Hito Steyerl -- Self-engineering / Franco "Bifo" Berardi -- I spy with my machine eye / Liam Young -- Art without death / Arseny Zhilyaev in conversation with Anton Vidokle -- Workplace aesthetics might not be enough / Liam Gillick -- The matter of scale / Pelin Tan -- On anthropolysis / Benjamin H. Bratton -- Blockchain future states / Simon Denny -- Right-wing spaces / Stephan Trüby -- Our vectors, ourselves / Kali Stull and Etienne Turpin -- Analysis: synthesis / Sophia Roosth -- The story of Peter Green Peter Chang / Brian Kuan Wood -- The return of the have-lived / Yongwoo Lee -- "Or are we human beings?" / Thomas Keenan.

Summary:

A wide-ranging and challenging exploration of design and how it engages with the self. The field of design has radically expanded. As a practice, design is no longer limited to the world of material objects but rather extends from carefully crafted individual styles and online identities to the surrounding galaxies of personal devices, new materials, interfaces, networks, systems, infrastructures, data, chemicals, organisms, and genetic codes. Superhumanity seeks to explore and challenge our understanding of "design" by engaging with and departing from the concept of the "self." This volume brings together more than fifty essays by leading scientists, artists, architects, designers, philosophers, historians, archaeologists, and anthropologists, originally disseminated online via e-flux Architecture between September 2016 and February 2017 on the invitation of the Third Istanbul Design Biennial. Probing the idea that we are and always have been continuously reshaped by the artifacts we shape, this book asks: Who designed the lives we live today? What are the forms of life we inhabit, and what new forms are currently being designed? Where are the sites, and what are the techniques, to design others? This vital and far-reaching collection of essays and images seeks to explore and reflect on the ways in which both the concept and practice of design are operative well beyond tangible objects, expanding into the depths of self and forms of life

ISBN:

1517905214 (paperback)
9781517905217 (paperback)
1517905206 (hardcover)
9781517905200 (hardcover)

Subject:

Istanbul Tasarım Bienali (3rd : 2016 : Istanbul, Turkey)
Design Philosophy.
Self (Philosophy)
Design Social aspects.
Design 21st century Exhibitions.
Design Philosophie.
Moi (Philosophie)
Design Aspect social.
Design 21e siècle Expositions.
Design.

Form/genre:

Exhibition Publications.
exhibition catalogs.
Exhibition catalogs.
Catalogues d'exposition.

Added entries:

Axel, Nick, editor.
Colomina, Beatriz, editor.
Hirsch, Nikolaus, editor.
Vidokle, Anton, editor.
Wigley, Mark, editor.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 299884
Call No.: BIB 246039
Status: Available