- 346 pages
- English
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Thinking Design Through Literature
About this book
This book deploys literature to explore the social lives of objects and places. The first book of its kind, it embraces things as diverse as escalators, coins, skyscrapers, pottery, radios, and robots, and encompasses places as various as home, country, cities, streets, and parks. Here, fiction, poetry, and literary non-fiction are mined for stories of design, which are paired with images of contemporary architecture and design. Through the work of authors such as César Aires, Nicholson Baker, Lydia Davis, Orhan Pamuk, and Virginia Woolf, this book shows the enormous influence that places and things exert in the world.
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Index
Abe, Kōbō 18, 64–69, 67
Abloh, Virgil 29, 29
Absolute Friends (Le Carré) 105
Acconci, Vito 16, 16
Aciman, André 24, 60–63
Actor-Network-Theory (ANT) 142n27
“Acts of Charity” (Aira) 236–241
Against Nature (Huysmans) 271–274
Aira, César 28, 236–241
Akan, Erdem 25, 25, 49, 49
Al Adib, Yara 113, 113
Alagić, Adnan 40, 40
Alba, the Green Fluorescent Protein (GFP) Bunny (Kac) 273, 273
AlterEgo headset (MIT Media Lab) 149, 149
Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, The (Chabon) 114–115
American Woman’s Home: Or, Principles of Domestic Science; Being a Guide to the Formation and Maintenance of Economical, Healthful, Beautiful, and Christian Homes (Beecher and Stowe) 198–200
Andersen, Hans Christian 19
Andrić, Ivo 38–43, 71n8
Antonelli, Paola 13–14, 307
Appiah, Kwame Anthony 50, 72n35
Arendt, Hannah 105n1
Askew Clock (Kalman) 162, 162
Asymmetric Love Number 2 (Wagenknecht) 26, 26
“Attachment” (Lao She) 241–243
Atwood, Margaret 17, 27, 134–138
Auster, Paul 17, 254–259
Austerlitz (Sebald) 91–98, 107n40
Baas, Maarten 89, 89
Baby (Sato) 32
Bachelard, Gaston 184
Baerten, Nik 113, 113
Bakalarz-Duverger, Malgorzata 71n2
Baker, Nicholson 18, 27, 31, 165–168, 289
Baltz, Emilie 293, 293
Barańczak, Stanisław 59
Barbara, Anna 218, 218, 244, 244
Bardi, Lina Bo 276, 276
Barnes, Richard 111, 111, 302, 302
Barry, Nick 264, 264
Bartholl, Aram 144, 144
Bauman, Zygmunt 106n24, 226
Bazzicalupo, Matteo 197, 197
Beecher, Catherine 196, 198–200
Being Alive: Essays on Movement, Knowledge and Description (Ingold) 278
Being and Time (Heidegger) 219n2
Benjamin, Walter 28, 246–247
Bennett, Jane 337n48
Berlin, Isaiah 139, 143n57
Berli...
Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Series Title
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Dedication
- Acknowledgements
- Foreword
- Introduction
- Culture: Identity, Displacement, Exile
- Politics: Prosecution, Obfuscation, Possibility
- Beings: Unruly Things, Golems, Cyborgs
- Technology: Connections, Disruptions, Amplifications
- Domesticity: Cleaning, Mending, Caring
- Consuming: Shopping, Collecting, Hoarding
- Senses: Perceptions, Vibrations, Visions
- Mortality: Death, Burial, Resurrection
- Literary works discussed
- Index