{"product_id":"designing-in-dark-times-an-arendtian-lexicon-paperback","title":"Designing in Dark Times: An Arendtian Lexicon - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eVirginia Tassinari\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eClive Dilnot\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eEduardo Staszowski\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe architectural historian and critic Kenneth Frampton 'never recovered' from the force of Hannah Arendt's teaching at The New School in New York. The philosopher Richard J. Bernstein considers her the most perceptive political theorist and observer of 'dark times' (a concept which, drawing from Brecht, she made her own). \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBuilding on the revival of interest in Hannah Arendt, and on the increasing turn in design towards the expanded field of the social, this unique book uses insights and quotations drawn from Arendt's major writings (\u003ci\u003eThe Human Condition; The Origins of Totalitarianism, Men in Dark Times\u003c\/i\u003e) to assemble a new kind of lexicon for politics, designing and acting today. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTaking 56 terms - from \u003ci\u003eAction, Beginnings\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eCreativity\u003c\/i\u003e through \u003ci\u003eMortality, Natality\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003ePlay\u003c\/i\u003e to \u003ci\u003eSuperfluity, Technology \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eViolence -\u003c\/i\u003e and inviting designers and scholars of design world-wide to contribute, \u003ci\u003eDesigning in Dark Times: An Arendtian Lexicon\u003c\/i\u003e, offers up an extraordinary range of short essays that use moments and quotations from Arendt's thought as the starting points for reflection on how these terms can be conceived for contemporary design and political praxis. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eNeither simply dictionary nor glossary, the lexicon brings together designing and political philosophy to begin to create a new language for acting and designing \u003ci\u003eagainst \u003c\/i\u003edark times.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEduardo Staszowski\u003c\/b\u003e is Associate Professor of Design Strategies at Parsons School of Design, USA, and Director\/co-founder of the Parsons DESIS Lab, USA. Working to enhance participation in policy development and civic design, he studies design as a method and language, and its role as an intermediary, creating, and orienting processes of social innovation and sustainability. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eVirginia Tassinari\u003c\/b\u003e is Assistant Professor at LUCA School of Arts, Belgium, where she also founded the LUCA DESIS Lab; Visiting Professor at Politecnico di Milano, Italy, and a design researcher for Pantopicon, an Antwerp-based foresight and design studio. Her research areas are design and philosophy, with a specific focus on design for social innovation, participatory design and design activism.\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 360\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.9 x 7.7 x 5.1 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 12, 2020\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51772327231776,"sku":"9781350070257","price":21.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/b7073226804f6c4d319942227effacf8.webp?v=1780403231","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/designing-in-dark-times-an-arendtian-lexicon-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}