TY - GEN AU - Fry, Tony TI - Becoming human by design SN - 9781350157705 U1 - 745.4 PY - 2021/// CY - New Delhi PB - Bloomsburry Publishing KW - Academic theses KW - Human evolution KW - Design--Human factors KW - Design--Methodology KW - Design--Philosophy KW - Solar air conditioning KW - Air conditioning N1 - Contents Preface vii Introduction 1 Part I First Pass 15 1 End of the Story 21 2 Start of a Story 33 3 Proximity: A Question of Distances 39 Part II Emergence over Origin-A Relational Account 51 4 Coming into Being via Natural Selection 57 5 Coming into Being via Un-natural Selection 75 6 Coming into Being via Design 91 Part III The Leap 107 7 Why Make the Leap? 111 8 The Passage from 'Here and Now' to 'Then' 116 Part JV From 'Where We Were' to ''Where We Are' 125 9 World-in-Being 129 10 Imagination in a Blink of an Eye 143 11 On the Subject of the Subject 162 Part V Now-ings 173 12 Living in Darkness 179 13 Postpolitical Prospects 199 14 The Rise of Another Other 212 15 Last Words 223 Notes 229 Select Bibliography 249 Index 254 ER -