Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. Contents 4
3. Introduction
4. Critical by design? An introduction 8
5. Genealogies
6. What is a critical object? Design as «desubjugation» (after Foucault) 32
7. The vitality of the negative: critical design between social philosophy and conceptual art 50
8. Ask what can be! Modal critique and design as drivers of accidence 64
9. What are the politics of ontological design? A critical reflection on the mutual becoming of «the human» and «the world» 80
10. Engaging in epistemic disobedience: on the decolonialization of design discourses 94
11. Practices
12. Unsettling individualized design practice through collaboration 110
13. «Ci concimiamo a vicenda»: building support structures as part of design practice 124
14. Re-visioning pelvic care through design 140
15. Trojan horses: ambiguity as a critical design strategy 162
16. Grey design: critical practices of design at the peripheries of the discipline 182
17. Positions
18. The ineliminable aesthetic dimension of art 194
19. Design culture as critical practice 212
20. What might be the speculative social? 230
21. Biased design, or the misery of neutrality 248
22. Undesign and understanding 268
23. Epilogue
24. The life and death of critical and speculative design: post-disciplinarity, post-truth, post-self and post-capital 286
25. Appendix
26. Critical by design? The book's design as SF figures 306
27. List of Figures & Tables 316
28. Biographies 318
29. Imprint 330