Design and the Question of History (Record no. 48244)

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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 9780857854773
082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number 745.409 FRY
100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Fry, Tony
245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT
Title Design and the Question of History
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT)
Name of publisher, distributor, etc Bloomsbury Academic
Place of publication, distribution, etc New York
Date of publication, distribution, etc 2015
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent 309
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc Design and the Question of History is not a work of Design History. Rather, it is a mixture of mediation, advocacy and polemic that takes seriously the directive force of design as an historical actor in and upon the world. Understanding design as a shaper of worlds within which the political, ethical and historical character of human being is at stake, this text demands radically transformed notions of both design and history. Above all, the authors posit history as the generational site of the future. Blindness to history, it is suggested, blinds us both to possibility, and to the foreclosure of possibilities, enacted through our designing. The text is not a resolved, continuous work, presented through one voice. Rather, the three authors cut across each other, presenting readers with the task of disclosing, to themselves, the commonalities, repetitions and differences within the deployed arguments, issues, approaches and styles from which the text is constituted. This is a work of friendship, of solidarity in difference, an act of cultural politics. It invites the reader to take a position – it seeks engagement over agreement
650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Design and History
700 ## - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Dilnot, Clive
700 ## - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Stewart, Susan C
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Koha item type Book
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