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A new design philosophy : an introduction to defuturing / Tony Fry.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Sydney : UNSW Press, 1999.Description: 1 online resource (x, 304 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 0585356645
  • 9780585356648
  • 9780868407531
  • 0868407534
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: New design philosophy.DDC classification:
  • 720.1
LOC classification:
  • NA2500 F946 1999eb
Online resources:
Contents:
An Opening -- 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 -- History, Modernity and Defuturing -- Made in America: a world production -- America -- Then and now -- Productivism and a history of world making -- Dwelling in streamlined America -- Streamlining design -- The New York World's Fair -- Utopia: a designing idea -- Total design: Europe -- The Bauhaus, as told -- The Vkhutemas postscript -- One Point: Four Locations -- Design and the body of competition -- The body -- Bodies of the body -- The measured that measures the standards -- Openings as endings -- Time and China -- Time -- The years of 1926 -- China: four perspectives -- Televisual in-human design -- The televisual -- Perspectives and horizons -- Ecology of the image -- The autonomic technocentricity of computers -- The reason machine -- The force of design -- Reiterations towards making decisions.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 291-295) and index.

An Opening -- 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 -- History, Modernity and Defuturing -- Made in America: a world production -- America -- Then and now -- Productivism and a history of world making -- Dwelling in streamlined America -- Streamlining design -- The New York World's Fair -- Utopia: a designing idea -- Total design: Europe -- The Bauhaus, as told -- The Vkhutemas postscript -- One Point: Four Locations -- Design and the body of competition -- The body -- Bodies of the body -- The measured that measures the standards -- Openings as endings -- Time and China -- Time -- The years of 1926 -- China: four perspectives -- Televisual in-human design -- The televisual -- Perspectives and horizons -- Ecology of the image -- The autonomic technocentricity of computers -- The reason machine -- The force of design -- Reiterations towards making decisions.

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