A new design philosophy : an introduction to defuturing /
Tony Fry.
- Sydney : UNSW Press, 1999.
- 1 online resource (x, 304 pages) : illustrations
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.