Designing in Dark Times (eBook, ePUB)

An Arendtian Lexicon
Redaktion: Tassinari, Virginia; Staszowski, Eduardo

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The architectural historian and critic Kenneth Frampton 'never recovered' from the force of Hannah Arendt's teaching at The New School in New York. The philosopher Richard J. Bernstein considers her the most perceptive political theorist and observer of 'dark times' (a concept which, drawing from Brecht, she made her own).

Building on the revival of interest in Hannah Arendt, and on the increasing turn in design towards the expanded field of the social, this unique book uses insights and quotations drawn from Arendt's major writings (The Human Condition; The Origins of Totalitarianism, Men in Dark Times) to assemble a new kind of lexicon for politics, designing and acting today.

Taking 56 terms - from Action, Beginnings and Creativity through Mortality, Natality, and Play to Superfluity, Technology and Violence - and inviting designers and scholars of design world-wide to contribute, Designing in Dark Times: An Arendtian Lexicon, offers up an extraordinary range of short essays that use moments and quotations from Arendt's thought as the starting points for reflection on how these terms can be conceived for contemporary design and political praxis.

Neither simply dictionary nor glossary, the lexicon brings together designing and political philosophy to begin to create a new language for acting and designing against dark times.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK
• Seitenzahl: 360
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. November 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781350070271
• Artikelnr.: 60146666

Autorenporträt

Eduardo Staszowski is Associate Professor of Design Strategies at Parsons School of Design, USA, and Director/co-founder of the Parsons DESIS Lab, USA. Working to enhance participation in policy development and civic design, he studies design as a method and language, and its role as an intermediary, creating, and orienting processes of social innovation and sustainability. Virginia Tassinari is Assistant Professor at LUCA School of Arts, Belgium, where she also founded the LUCA DESIS Lab; Visiting Professor at Politecnico di Milano, Italy, and a design researcher for Pantopicon, an Antwerp-based foresight and design studio. Her research areas are design and philosophy, with a specific focus on design for social innovation, participatory design and design activism.

Inhaltsangabe

Series Foreword: The Urgency of the Possible Preface: On Hannah Arendt Kenneth Frampton Acknowledgements Introduction: Eduardo Staszowski and Virginia Tassinari I: Hannah Arendt & Designing in Dark Times II: The Lexicon A Action
Activism
Alienation
Animal Laborans
Animal rationale
Anthropocentrism B Beginnings
Bourgeois
Bureaucracy C Citizenship
Common good
Common interests
Common world
Comprehension
Courage
Creativity D Democracy E Equality
Evil F Fabrication
Freedom H History
Homo Faber
Human rights
Humanity I Imagination (by Hannah Arendt)
Imperialism Insert: Martha Rosler
Reading Hannah Arendt (Politically
for an American in the 21st Century) In-between
Instrumentality L Labor
Law M Metabolism
Mortality N Natality O Objectivity P Pariah
Play
Plurality
Power
Private realm
Public R Reification S Solitude
Speech
Spontaneity
Stories
Superfluity T Technology
Thought
Thoughtlessness
Togetherness
Totalitarianism V Violence
Vita Activa
Vita Contemplativa Afterword: Richard J. Bernstein
The Illuminations of Hannah Arendt List of Contributors