CONTENTS List of illustrations xi Preface xiii Acknowledgements xvi Ben H ighmore General Introduction: A Sideboard Manifesto: Design Culture in an Artificial World 1 PART ONE Materials and Methods 13 Introduction to Part One 15 1 Karl Marx (1867) 17 THE FETISHISM OF THE COMMODITY AND ITS SECRET 2Jonathan Crary (1989) 27 SPECTACLE, ATTENTION, C0UNTER-ME M 0 R Y 3Vilem Flusser (1993) 36 ABOUT THE WORD DESIGN 4Michael Moon, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, Benjamin Gianni and Scott Weir (1994) 40 QUEERS IN (SINGLE-FAMILY) SPACE 5 Pauline Madge (1997) 50 ECOLOGICAL DESIGN : A NEW CRITIQUE 6 Hal Foster (2001) 61 THE ABCS OF CONTEMPORARY DESIGN PART TWO Actors and Agents 69 Introduction to Part Two 71 7 Marcel Mauss (1934) 73 TECHNIQUES OF THE BODY 8 Michel Foucault (1982) 88 SPACE, KNOWLEDGE, AND POWER 9FriedrichA. Kittler(1986) 99 INTRODUCTION TO GRAMOPHONE, FILM, TYPEWRITER 10 Lana F. Rakow (1988) 113 WOMEN ANDTHE ELEPHONE: THE GENDERING OF A COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY 11 Ellen Lupton (1996) 125 POWER TOOL FOR THE DINING ROOM: THE ELECTRIC CARVING KNIFE 12 Tobin Siebers (2003) 132 WHAT CAN DISABILITY STUDIES LEARN FROM THE CULTURE WARS? PART THREE Object Life 141 Introduction to Part Three 143 13 Stuart Cosgrove (1984) 145 THE ZOOT-SUIT AND STYLE WARFARE 14 Mihay Csikszentmihalyi (1991) 157 DESIGN AND ORDER IN EVERYDAY LIFE 15 Zeynep gelik (1996) 165 GENDERED SPACES IN COLONIAL ALGIERS 16 Celine Rosselin (1999) 172 THE INS AND OUTS OF THE HALL: A PARISIAN EXAMPLE 17 Svetlana Boym (2001) 178 IMMIGRANT SOUVENIRS PART FOUR Sense and Sensibilities 189 Introduction to Part Four 191 18 Wolfgang Schivelbusch (1983) 193 SHOP WINDOWS 19 Nicholson Baker (1986) 199 FROM THE MEZZANINE 20 C. Nadia Seremetakis (1996) 205 THE MEMORY OF THE SENSES, PART 1: MARKS OF THE TRANSITORY 21 Koichi Iwabuchi (1998) 218 MARKETING 'JAPAN': JAPANESE CULTURAL PRESENCE UNDER A GLOBAL GAZE 22 Jonathan Sterne (2003) 233 HELLO PART FIVE Designing (in) the World 249 Introduction to Part Five 251 23 John McHale (1969) 253 AN ECOLOGICALOVERVIEW 24 Krzysztof Wodiczko (1999) 258 DESIGNING FOR THE CITY OF STRANGERS 25 Celeste Olalquiaga (1999) 268 THE CRYSTAL PALACE 26 Tony Fry (1999) 276 FROM WAR TO WARRING 27 Ashoke Chatterjee (2005) 284 DESIGN IN INDIA: THE EXPERIENCE OF TRANSITION PART SIX Design Time 289 Introduction to Part Six 291 28 Siegfried Giedion (1948) 293 ANONYMOUS HISTORY 29 Evan Watkins (1993) 301 SOCIAL POSITION AND THE ART OF AUTOMOBILE MAINTENANCE 30 Michel Serres (with Bruno Latour) (1995) 307 THE PAST IS NO LONGER OUT-OF-DATE 31 N. Katherine Hayles (1999) 317 THE MATERIALITY OF INFORMATICS: AUDIOTAPE AND ITS CULTURAL NICHE 32 Peter Hitchcock (2003) 328 CHRONOTOPE OF THE SHOE (TWO) Bibliography 349 Index 365