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What Design Can’t Do
Essays on Design and DisillusionDesign is broken. Young and not-so-young designers are becoming increasingly aware of this. Many feel impotent: they were told they had the tools to make the world a better place, but instead the world takes its toll on them. Beyond a haze of hype and bold claims lies a barren land of self-doubt and impostor syndrome. This book probes the disillusionment that permeates design. It tackles the deskilling effects provoked by digital semi-automation, the instances of ornamental politics fashioned to please the museum-educational complex, the nebulous promises of design schools. While reviving historical expressions of disenchantment, Silvio Lorusso examines present-day memes and social media rants. To depict this disheartening crisis, he crafts a new critical vocabulary for readers to build upon. What this exposé reveals is both worrying and refreshing: rather than producing a meaningful order, design might be just about inhabiting chaos.
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When Words Fail…
On Practice-Based Art, Design and EducationThis volume explores how art and design create knowledge in a world where traditional language has reached its limits. Through the works and writings of more than one hundred artists, designers, and thinkers, it examines how images, gestures, and forms can reveal what words struggle to name. As the boundaries between disciplines dissolve, these contributors test new tools for understanding experience, confronting uncertainty, and challenging dominant narratives. Their practices show that visual work does more than represent reality. It can reshape it, offering critical, situated, and transformative ways of knowing in the blur of the contemporary moment.
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Le paludi della piattaforma. Riprendiamoci internet
Quando ci svegliamo controlliamo la mail e i social network già prima di fare colazione. Poi iniziamo a lavorare su G Suite mentre chiacchieriamo con gli amici su WhatsApp tra una riunione e l'altra su Zoom. Le nostre case sono diventate i nostri uffici, e somigliano sempre più a call center. Sembra di essere in trappola. Condannati a uno scroll infinito di fake news, teorie cospirazioniste, meme cringe e risse virtuali, sentiamo crescere la noia e la frustrazione. Internet è diventato asfissiante: siamo impantanati nelle piattaforme. Se l'obiettivo era usare la pandemia per fare un bel reset e ripartire, abbiamo fallito. Allora «come riemergere dalla palude e depiattaformare le piattaforme?» Partendo da questa domanda, Lovink si addentra nei meccanismi con cui le big tech intrappolano l'individuo, possiedono e modellano i mercati, acuiscono le disuguaglianze sociali ed economiche. E traccia una rotta per uscire dalla stagnazione: uno slancio di immaginazione collettiva che ci aiuti a sfuggire al potere delle piattaforme e a riprenderci internet. Das Urheberrecht an bibliographischen und produktbeschreibenden Daten und an den bereitgestellten Bildern liegt bei Informazioni Editoriali, I.E. S.r.l., oder beim Herausgeber oder demjenigen, der die Genehmigung erteilt hat. Alle Rechte vorbehalten.
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Entreprecariat
Mocking self-entrepreneurship and exploring the miseries of precarity, this biting new book identifies the aesthetics of productive anxiety In this pocket-sized paperback volume, Italian writer and conceptual artist Silvio Lorusso guides us through this era of the "entreprecariat," or the relationship between entrepreneurship and precarity. The precariat class consists of those whose working lives are comprised of disjointed bits, lacking financial or professional stability. In our entreprecarious society, everyone is an entrepreneur and nobody is stable. Through analyses of memes, photographs and advertisements, Lorusso explores tensions surrounding labor, productivity, autonomy and failure while dissecting the media objects that encourage a precarious lifestyle. Precarious economic conditions demand an entrepreneurial attitude, while entrepreneurialism breeds instability and change; thus, entreprecarity is characterized by a cognitive dissonance. Lorusso weaponizes irony and sarcasm in order to shift our collective understanding of work ethic, labor, leisure, production and competition.
€ 19,50