A wide-ranging and challenging exploration of design and how it
engages with the self The field of design has radically expanded.
As a practice, design is no longer limited to the world of material
objects but rather extends from carefully crafted individual styles
and online identities to the surrounding galaxies of personal
devices, new materials, interfaces, networks, systems,
infrastructures, data, chemicals, organisms, and genetic codes.
Superhumanity seeks to explore and challenge our understanding of
"design" by engaging with and departing from the concept of the
"self." This volume brings together more than fifty essays by
leading scientists, artists, architects, designers, philosophers,
historians, archaeologists, and anthropologists, originally
disseminated online via e-flux Architecture between September 2016
and February 2017 on the invitation of the Third Istanbul Design
Biennial. Probing the idea that we are and always have been
continuously reshaped by the artifacts we shape, this book asks:
Who designed the lives we live today? What are the forms of life we
inhabit, and what new forms are currently being designed? Where are
the sites, and what are the techniques, to design others? This
vital and far-reaching collection of essays and images seeks to
explore and reflect on the ways in which both the concept and
practice of design are operative well beyond tangible objects,
expanding into the depths of self and forms of life. Contributors:
Zeynep Celik Alexander, Lucia Allais, Shumon Basar, Ruha Benjamin,
Franco "Bifo" Berardi, Daniel Birnbaum, Ina Blom, Benjamin H.
Bratton, Giuliana Bruno, Tony Chakar, Mark Cousins, Simon Denny,
Keller Easterling, Hu Fang, Ruben Gallo, Liam Gillick, Boris Groys,
Rupali Gupte, Andrew Herscher, Tom Holert, Brooke Holmes, Francesca
Hughes, Andres Jaque, Lydia Kallipoliti, Thomas Keenan, Sylvia
Lavin, Yongwoo Lee, Lesley Lokko, MAP Office, Chus Martinez, Ingo
Niermann, Ahmet OEgut, Trevor Paglen, Spyros Papapetros, Raqs Media
Collective, Juliane Rebentisch, Sophia Roosth, Felicity D. Scott,
Jack Self, Prasad Shetty, Hito Steyerl, Kali Stull, Pelin Tan,
Alexander Tarakhovsky, Paulo Tavares, Stephan Truby, Etienne
Turpin, Sven-Olov Wallenstein, Eyal Weizman, Mabel O. Wilson, Brian
Kuan Wood, Liam Young, and Arseny Zhilyaev.
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