TY - GEN AU - Colomina, Beatriz AU - Wigley, Mark TI - Are we human? notes on an archaeology of design SN - 9783037785119 U1 - 745.201 PY - 2016/// CY - Zurich PB - Lars Muller Publisher KW - N1 - CONTENTS 1. The mirror of design : spiderwebs, sediments radiation, extinction self-surveillance 2. The plastic human : plasticity, strange artifacts interface 3. Blows of design : technofossils, prehistory genetic continuum hands, ornament sexual selection 4. The invention of the human : tools, brain, curiosity 5. The ornamental species : domestication, beads, networks, thinking strings, useless things 6. New from nowhere : mechanical life, good design, morality, failure toys, functionalsim 7. Good design is an anesthetic : smoothness, shock, smile shock absorber, nerves 8. The design of health : dissection, x-ray, tuberculosis, fatigue, allergies, autoimmune burnout 9. Human-centered design : camping, artificial limbs biology, survival, self-destruction, primal scene 10. The frictionless silhouette : normal, human engineering, automaton biotechnique, discipline 11. Designing the body : bodybuilding, hedonism nudism, libido, stomach psyche 12. Design as perversion : fetishism, bondage voyeurism, erotica scatology, pedophilia 13. Designing a ghost : scale figure, protohumans clothing, lurking shadows 14. The unstable body : microbiome, prosthetics plastic surgery, drugs biodesign, chimera 15. Homo cellular : intimacy, connectivity shelter, computation selfie, surveillance 16. Design in 2 seconds : social media, avatar hybrid space, the bed postlabor, self-design ER -