Culture^2 – Theorizing Theory for the Twenty–First Century, Vol. 1

Author:   Alexander Starre ,  Frank Kelleter
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Pages:   300
Publication Date:   28 April 2023
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Author:   Alexander Starre ,  Frank Kelleter
Publisher:   Transcript Verlag
Imprint:   Transcript Verlag
Dimensions:   Width: 14.70cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 22.60cm
Weight:   0.666kg
ISBN:  

9783837657876


ISBN 10:   3837657876
Pages:   300
Publication Date:   28 April 2023
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
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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.

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Frank Kelleter is chair of the Department of Culture at John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies, Freie Universität Berlin. His main fields of interest include the American Colonial and Enlightenment periods, theories of American modernity, and American media and popular culture. Select publications: Media of Serial Narrative (ed., 2017), David Bowie (Reclam, 2016), Serial Agencies: The Wire and Its Readers (2014). Alexander Starre is assistant professor of North American culture at the John F. Kennedy Institute at Freie Universität Berlin. He is a former Humboldt Foundation fellow and has previously taught at the Universität Göttingen and at Brown University. Current research interests are knowledge production, literary institutions, and late 19th/early 20th-century American culture. His publications include Metamedia (2015), Projecting American Studies (ed., 2018), and The Printed Book in Contemporary American Culture (ed., 2019).

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