Designing the Domestic Posthuman
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Product details:
- Publisher Bloomsbury Visual Arts
- Date of Publication 25 January 2024
- Number of Volumes Hardback
- ISBN 9781350301207
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages208 pages
- Size 238x158x18 mm
- Weight 560 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 10 bw illus 573
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Long description:
Ever since TIME magazine's 1983 'Man of the Year' was the PC, we have been led to believe that our domestic spaces have been colonized by digital technology. Too little attention has been paid to the domestic spaces and inhabitants impacted by this, and critical posthumanism has been captured by a picture of humanity overly indebted to digital technologies and their largely male progenitors. By applying feminist theory to posthumanism, this work recovers the plethora of sophisticated human-technology mediations associated with the home and practiced primarily by women, the elderly, infants, the disabled and across cultures globally, challenging dominant, contemporary visions of a future humanity.
Authors Dennis M. Weiss and Colbey Emmerson Reid look at various iterations of the posthuman and assert the need for alternative, feminist readings that emphasize different standpoints from which to assess people, places, and products. Chapters address the impact of posthumanism on design theory and look at familiar domestic objects, with different attributes from those typically affiliated with technology and the future, such as clothing, textiles, ceramics, furniture and wallpaper. They reveal their unhomely, extra-human qualities and offer a much-needed perspective on domestic spaces and practices, revivifying the home as a site of species transformation and pushing beyond traditional understandings of person, mothering, families and care-giving to highlight a range of critically-overlooked mediated materialisms and embodiments affiliated with domestic space.
By focusing on the neglected intersection of the posthuman with the home and exploring domestic posthuman design, Designing the Domestic Posthuman offers a vision of a future humanity that retains identity, integrity and considers our relationship to others, to the world and things in it. This book widens the lens of critical focus in posthumanism, feminist philosophy and design and presents an alternative, inclusive design framework for the future.
Table of Contents:
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Designing the Domestic Posthuman
Part 1: Posthuman Perons
1. Posthuman Parturition: An Origin Story
2. Domestic Posthuman Second Persons
3. Myths of Domestic Second Persons
Part 2: Poshuman Artifacts
4. Softwear
5. (Un)homely Techne
6. Myths of Domestic Posthuman Artifacts
Conclusion: A Design Sampler for the Domestic Posthuman
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