MonokromJun 7
How about instead of Speculative Design, we pay interns a living wage?
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"... easier to imagine the end of the world than an alternative to capitalism. Yet alternatives are exactly what we need." We aready have alternative: it is called sharing wealth equally.
Jun 7 at 8:18pmWeb
Show threadMonokromJun 7
The absolute hubris to think you can design your way out capitalism is stunning.
Show threadMonokromJun 7
Fwiw, Dunne & Raby’s sourcing is the sloppiest I’ve seen: “animals are cloned ... genetically modified ..., human babies are designed to order and bred to provide organs and tissue for their siblings (!), fish and … pigs made to glow in the dark, goats … produce military grade silk …” The footnote sources just one of these: the goat silk.
Show threadMonokromJun 7
And ”critical design” is, btw, explicitly not engaging with Critical Theory. Anti-capitalism is a stretch when you are looking for alternatives to capitalism.
Show threadMonokromJun 7
This has been a "speculative" sober reading of the first few chapters of Speculative Everything by Anthony Dunne and Fiona Raby. Now in dire need of a beer, as it seems to be going downhill from here. Lets hope design academics gets its act together.
Show threadPeiran TanJun 7
@monokrom I think Dunne and Raby are like, significant and key… but for the wrong reasons 🤪