{"product_id":"9781472521606","title":"Design and the Question of History","description":"\u003ci\u003eDesign and the Question of History \u003c\/i\u003eis not a work of Design History. Rather, it is a mixture of mediation, advocacy and polemic that takes seriously the directive force of design as an historical actor in and upon the world. Understanding design as a shaper of worlds within which the political, ethical and historical character of human being is at stake, this text\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003edemands radically transformed notions of both design and history. Above all, the authors posit history as the generational site of the future. Blindness to history, it is suggested, blinds us both to possibility, and to the foreclosure of possibilities, enacted through our designing.\u003cbr\u003e   \u003cbr\u003e  The text is not a resolved, continuous work, presented through one voice. Rather, the three authors cut across each other, presenting readers with the task of disclosing, to themselves, the commonalities, repetitions and differences within the deployed arguments, issues, approaches and styles from which the text is constituted. This is a work of friendship, of solidarity in difference, an act of cultural politics. It invites the reader to take a position – it seeks engagement over agreement.","brand":"Bloomsbury USA","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47107518824688,"sku":"9781472521606","price":23.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781472521606_p0.jpg?v=1763598148","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781472521606","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}