Key questions:
- Drawing on Hal Foster’s essay “Design and Crime,” we will discuss the emergence of “Design Capitalism.”
- Contrasts between the concept of “Total Design” in the Style 1900 and the proliferation of design in the twenty-first century
- The ubiquity of networks and the anachronism of treating virtuality as the opposite of reality
Readings:
Foster, H. “Design and Crime”. In: Design and Crime (and Other Diatribes), New York, Verso, 2002, p. 13-26.
Beiguelman, G. “Arte pós-virtual: Criação e agenciamento no tempo da Internet das Coisas e da próxima natureza”. In: Cyber-arte-cultura – A trama das redes. Seminários INternacionais Museu Vale 2013, Vila Velha, 2013, p. 147-171.
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