Contents
1.Mirror of Design 9
Spiderwebs – sediments
Radiation – extinction
Self-surveillance
2. The plastic human 23
plasticity, strange artifacts interface
3. Blows of design 31
technofossils, prehistory genetic continuum hands, ornament sexual selection
4. The invention of the human 51
tools, brain, curiosity
5. The ornamental species 63
domestication, beads, networks, thinking strings, useless things
6. New from nowhere : mechanical life, good design, morality, failure toys, functionalsim 75
7. Good design is an anesthetic : smoothness, shock, smile shock absorber, nerves 89
8. The design of health : dissection, x-ray, tuberculosis, fatigue, allergies, autoimmune burnout 107
9.Human-centered design : camping, artificial limbs biology, survival, self-destruction, primal scene 127
10. The frictionless silhouette 147
normal, human engineering, automaton biotechnique, discipline
11. Designing the body : bodybuilding, hedonism nudism, libido, stomach psyche 167
12. Design as perversion : fetishism, bondage voyeurism, erotica scatology, pedophilia 183
13. Designing a ghost : scale figure, protohumans clothing, lurking shadows 203
14. The unstable body : microbiome, prosthetics plastic surgery, drugs biodesign, chimera 219
15. Homo cellular : intimacy, connectivity shelter, computation selfie, surveillance 239
16. Design in 2 seconds : social media, avatar hybrid space, the bed postlabor, self-design 257