A seminal force in semiotics Beaudrillard's first book rocks
+ :D nice book + Rewarding 1968 analysis of psycho-sociology of consumption
If you're academically inclined and into semiotics, this book should be part of your library. Any designer of systems, whether they be Web applications, lemon squeezers, or a marketing campaign, would probably find use of the insights offered here.
+ Techno-futuristic ruminations on "spimes" and sustainability + A tool, in a way...
If you're looking for a book on sustainable design, the intertwining of the informational and the material, and RFID, look no further.
Sterling's account is more than a book for designers. Though some angles tend to originate from design-related topics, the implications and responsibilities ...
the technique and the time of Bernard Stiegler propose a philosophical analysis of technicality. Stiegler shows that this one is originating. If the Western culture analyzed the technique like a fault (Promotheus), it must now be seen like a defect, the defect even of the originating one. Heir to ...
+ Good but Complex + Engaging discussion of our views of culture and nature
i loved this book: it questions the idea of repeatability, which means that it questions the religion of science (as practiced by amateurs)and it shows you how language has served the impulse towards duplicity. the book also has a certain tongue-in-cheek wit about it, and that makes the ideas more ...
As our everyday social and cultural experiences are increasingly mediated by electronic products?from "intelligent" toasters to iPods?it is the design of these products that shapes our experience of the "electrosphere" in which we live. Designers of electronic products, writes Anthony Dunne in Hertzian Tales , must begin to think more broadly about the aesthetic role of electronic products in ...
+ Major Screw-up + Excellently translated introduction to unclassifiable master
It's a shame that Francis Ponge is not more widely read in America. It's an even bigger shame that so much of his work is left untranslated for the American reader.The two slim volumes translated by Lee Fahnstock, Nature of Things and Vegetation, are fine translations of his earliest work, and ...
One of the clearer expositions of Heidegger's later thought is Das Ding, anthologized in this volume. You are free to read the other selections ("the essence of language is the language of essence" ad nauseum) but das Ding begins with a phenomenological description of a Krug (a cup) that became ...
+ Major Screw-up + Excellently translated introduction to unclassifiable master
It's a shame that Francis Ponge is not more widely read in America. It's an even bigger shame that so much of his work is left untranslated for the American reader.The two slim volumes translated by Lee Fahnstock, Nature of Things and Vegetation, are fine translations of his earliest work, and ...
the technique and the time of Bernard Stiegler propose a philosophical analysis of technicality. Stiegler shows that this one is originating. If the Western culture analyzed the technique like a fault (Promotheus), it must now be seen like a defect, the defect even of the originating one. Heir to ...
One of the clearer expositions of Heidegger's later thought is Das Ding, anthologized in this volume. You are free to read the other selections ("the essence of language is the language of essence" ad nauseum) but das Ding begins with a phenomenological description of a Krug (a cup) that became ...
As our everyday social and cultural experiences are increasingly mediated by electronic products?from "intelligent" toasters to iPods?it is the design of these products that shapes our experience of the "electrosphere" in which we live. Designers of electronic products, writes Anthony Dunne in Hertzian Tales , must begin to think more broadly about the aesthetic role of electronic products in ...
+ Techno-futuristic ruminations on "spimes" and sustainability + A tool, in a way...
If you're looking for a book on sustainable design, the intertwining of the informational and the material, and RFID, look no further.
Sterling's account is more than a book for designers. Though some angles tend to originate from design-related topics, the implications and responsibilities ...
A seminal force in semiotics Beaudrillard's first book rocks
+ :D nice book + Rewarding 1968 analysis of psycho-sociology of consumption
If you're academically inclined and into semiotics, this book should be part of your library. Any designer of systems, whether they be Web applications, lemon squeezers, or a marketing campaign, would probably find use of the insights offered here.
+ Good but Complex + Engaging discussion of our views of culture and nature
i loved this book: it questions the idea of repeatability, which means that it questions the religion of science (as practiced by amateurs)and it shows you how language has served the impulse towards duplicity. the book also has a certain tongue-in-cheek wit about it, and that makes the ideas more ...
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