(Designing) Beyond the Modern

Limits, Dialectic, and Potentialities

AvEduardo Staszowski,Virginia Tassinari

Inbunden, Engelska, 2026

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(Designing) Beyond the Modern is the second volume in a trilogy by Eduardo Staszowski and Virginia Tassinari, following Designing in Dark Times: An Arendtian Lexicon (2020).This book is a provocation: how can we begin to move beyond the modern when so much of how we think and make remains entangled in its logic? Among the forces that have both shaped and been shaped by the modern project, design occupies a central role. Rather than treating it as a neutral tool, this book approaches design as a practice deeply implicated in modernity’s extractive, colonial, and anthropocentric foundations. The parenthesis in the title signals an ambivalence about whether “designing” can remain a relevant or viable practice. Without offering a conclusion, the book confronts the legacy of the Modern and calls for a caesura: a rupture, a pause, or an interval where a critical praxis, whether called design or not, might begin to take shape. Drawing on philosophy, decolonial thought, and design theory, it challenges the logics that continue to shape modern institutions and imaginaries. Through essays, fragments, and engagements with the work of Tomás Maldonado, along with a conversation with Arturo Escobar and a contribution from Aílton Krenak, this book traces tensions and potential shifts that emerge when thinking and acting beyond the Modern.

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Utgivningsdatum:2026-06-25
Mått:162 x 236 x 16 mm
Vikt:480 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Beyond the Modern
Antal sidor:216
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN:9781350164437

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Eduardo Staszowski is Professor of Design Strategies at Parsons School of Design and Director of the Parsons DESIS Lab, USA. He is the co-editor of the Designing in Dark Times, Radical Thinkers in Design, and Beyond the Modern series, and Designing in Dark Times: An Arendtian Lexicon (Bloomsbury, 2020).Virginia Tassinari is Assistant Professor in the Human-Centered Design Department, Faculty of Industrial Design Engineering at TU Delft, the Netherlands, and a design researcher for the foresight and design studio Pantopicon, Belgium. She is the co-editor of the Beyond the Modern series and Designing in Dark Times: An Arendtian Lexicon (Bloomsbury, 2020).

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(Designing) Beyond the Modern, a superb work whose authors abandon academic comfort towards a beyonding disciplinary era. A book that uses the multiple crises of modernity and its offspring, Design, to vitalize rationality with relationality, opening the field to its exteriorities and to the fluid entry of othernesses.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS:PREFACEACKNOWLEDGMENTSINTRODUCTIONi. Moving Beyondii. Critical Praxisiii. The Structure of the BookTHE MODERNMany Faces of ModernReframing the ModernCatastropheColonialHumanDESIGNINGDesigning Today, Tomás MaldonadoCommentary on MaldonadoDesign-as-ModernDilemmaNihilismDialecticsExpertiseDenaming and Renaming IdiocyTomás Maldonado, Design and The Future of Modernity, Emanuele QuinzBEYOND THE MODERNBeyond A Conversation with, Arturo EscobarLanguage Exteriority CaesuraAffirmative CritiquePotentialitiesAncestral Get Out of This Concrete Nightmare!, Aílton KrenakAFTERWORDIndex

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(Designing) Beyond the Modern

Limits, Dialectic, and Potentialities

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