The Shape of Things

This text presents in English an array of essays on design by the seminal media critic and philosopher, Vilem Flusser. It puts forward the view that our future depedns on design. In a series of essays on such ordinary things as wheels and umbrellas, Flusser emphasizes the interrelationship between art and science, theology and technology, and archaeology and architecture. Just ...

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This text presents in English an array of essays on design by the seminal media critic and philosopher, Vilem Flusser. It puts forward the view that our future depedns on design. In a series of essays on such ordinary things as wheels and umbrellas, Flusser emphasizes the interrelationship between art and science, theology and technology, and archaeology and architecture. Just as formal creativity has produced both weapons aof destruction and great works of art, Flusser believed the shape of things (and designs behind them) represent both a threat and an opportunity for the future.

Introduction - Martin Pawley
About the Word Design
Form and Material
War and the State of Things
About Forms and Formulae
The Designer’s Way of Seeing
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Introduction - Martin Pawley
About the Word Design
Form and Material
War and the State of Things
About Forms and Formulae
The Designer’s Way of Seeing
The Factory
The Lever Strikes Back
Shelters, Screens and Tents
Design: Obstacle for/to the Removal of Obstacles
Why Do Typewriters Go ’Click’?
The Ethics of Industrial Design?
Design as Theology
Wittgenstein’s Architecture
Bare Walls
With As Many Holes As a Swiss Cheese
The Non-Thing 1
The Non-Thing 2
Carpets
Pots
Shamans and Dancers with Masks
The Submarine
Wheels
Biographical Note
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