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Alain Badiou, Quentin Meillassoux, Catherine Malabou, Michel Serres
and Bruno Latour: this new generation of French philosophers is
laying fresh claim to the human. Across a number of new strains of
philosophy, they are rethinking humanity's relationships: to
'nature' and 'culture', to the objects that surround us, to the
possibility of social and political change, to ecology and even to
our own brains. Christopher Watkin draws out both the promises and
perils of these new philosophies. And he shows just how high the
stakes are for our technologically advanced but socially atomised
and ecologically vulnerable society.
What is human trafficking? Despite legislative developments and
national and international interventions, we still lack firm
definitions, estimates of its full extent, effective responses to
perpetrators and sound survivor care. This volume critically
examines the competing discourses surrounding human trafficking,
the conceptual basis of global responses and the impact of these
horrific acts worldwide.
Networks of Design maps a new methodological territory in design
studies, conceived as a field of interdisciplinary inquiry and
practice informed by a range of responses to actor network theory.
It brings together a rich body of current work by researchers in
the social sciences, technology, material culture, cultural
geography, information technology, and systems design, and design
theory and history. This collection will be invaluable to students
and researchers in many areas of design studies and to design
practitioners receptive to new and challenging notions of what
constitutes the design process. Over ninety essays are thematically
organised to address five aspects of the expanded notions of
mediation, agency, and collaboration posited by network theory:
Ideas, Things, Technology, Texts, and People. The collection also
includes an important new essay on rethinking the concept of design
by Bruno Latour, one of the most influential figures in the
philosophy and sociology of science and technology and a pioneer of
actor network theory, and essays deriving from forum discussions
involving designers and designer-makers responsive to actor network
theory. Rather than an anthology of previously-published essays,
Networks of Design presents work in progress on design theory and
its applications. It is the outcome of a live and vigorous debate
on the possibilities and actualities offered by actor network led
conceptualisations of the relationships and processes constituting
design. All the essays, many collaborative, derive from papers
presented at the international conference of the Design History
Society held at University College Falmouth, UK in the Autumn of
2008.
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