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Superhumanity seeks to explore and challenge our understanding of ""design"" byengaging with and departing from the concept of the ""self."" This volume bringstogether more than fifty essays by leading scientists, artists, architects,designers, philosophers, historians, archaeologists, and anthropologists,probing the idea that we are and always have been continuously reshaped by theartifacts we shape.

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9781517905217

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""The essays themselves offer valuable and engaging interdisciplinary perspectives on design and design theory, and could be successfully assigned in a design studio, exposing students to the too-often overlooked failures in design thinking and execution.""—Design and Culture 

The essays themselves offer valuable and engaging interdisciplinary perspectives on design and design theory, and could be successfully assigned in a design studio, exposing students to the too-often overlooked failures in design thinking and execution. --Design and Culture

The essays themselves offer valuable and engaging interdisciplinary perspectives on design and design theory, and could be successfully assigned in a design studio, exposing students to the too-often overlooked failures in design thinking and execution. -Design and Culture

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Nick Axel is the deputy editor of e-flux. Beatriz Colomina is professor of architecture at Princeton University. She is coauthor (with Mark Wigley) of Are We Human? Notes on an Archaeology of Design. Nikolaus Hirsch is an architect and curator based in Frankfurt, Germany. Anton Vidokle is the founder and director of e-flux. Mark Wigley is professor and dean emeritus at the Columbia Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation. He is the author of numerous books, including Buckminster Fuller Inc.: Architecture in the Age of Radio.

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