Defuturing : A New Design Philosophy (Paperback)

- Preface - Introduction - An introductory lexicographical review PART I: AN OPENING Chapter 1: Technology, warring and the crisis of history - Technology in flux - From structure and from techne - From war to warring - The crisis of the crisis of history PART II: HISTORY, MODERNITY AND DEFUTURING Chapter 2: Made in America: a world production - America - Then and now - Productivism and a history of world making Chapter 3: Dwelling in streamlined America - Streamlining design - The New York World's Fair - Utopia: a designing idea Chapter 4: Total design: Europe - The Bauhaus, as told - The Vkhutemas postscript PART III: ONE POINT: FOUR LOCATIONS Chapter 5: Design and the body of competition - The body - Bodies of the body - The measure that measures the standards - Openings as endings Chapter 6: Time and China - Time - The years of 1926 - China: four perspectives Chapter 7: Televisual in-human design - The televisual - Perspectives and horizons - Ecology of the image Chapter 8: The autonomic technocentricity of computers - The reason machine - The force of design - Reiterations towards making decisions Concluding impressions - Select bibliography - Index