the future is local

next e-meeting: tues 23 feb 18:00 EST

2021

bell hooks

Teaching to Transgress

1994

Ruben Pater

Class of COVID-19 (lecture)

2020

Darin Buzon

Design Thinking is a Rebrand for White Supremacy

2020

Audre Lorde

Sister Outsider

1984

Ruben Pater

Untold Stories (lecture)

2020

Joseph Grigely

do it number 53

2002

Simone Forti

do it number 55

2012

Abbas Kiarostami

Shirin (film)

2008

Hito Steyerl

In Defense of the Poor Image

2009

Marguerite Yourcena

Memoirs of Hadrian

1951

adrienne maree brown

Pleasure Activism

2019

Bob Black

The Abolition of Work

1985

Fredy Perlman

The Reproduction of Daily Life

1969

Various

The Hurricane Digital Memory Bank

2005

Ramon Tejada

The Decolonizing Design Reader

2018–19

Anoushka Khandwala

Decolonizing Means Many Things to Many People

2020

Bruno Munari

The Shape of Words; Poems and Telegrams

1966

Georges Perec

An Attempt at Exhausting a Place in Paris

1975

Tamara Shopsin

Homage to an Homage of an Homage

2016

Bruno Munari

How One Lives in a Traditional Japanese House

1966

Jill Lepore

The Cobweb

2015

J. R. Carpenter

A Handmade Web

2015

Tressie McMillan Cottom

In the Name of Beauty

2019

Jenny Odell

There’s No Such Thing As a Free Watch

2017

Jenny Odell

How To Do Nothing

2017

Oliver Sacks

The Creative Self

2017

Rob Giampietro

I Am A Handle

2015

Rob Giampietro

School Days

2012

Triple Canopy’s Editors

The Binder and the Server

2012

Craig Mod

Post-Artifact Books and Publishing

2011

Michael Rock

Fuck Content

2009

Ellen Lupton

The Designer as Producer

1998

Walter Benjamin

The Author as Producer

1934

Roland Barthes

The Death of the Author

1967

Audre Lorde

The Master’s Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master’s House

1984

Katherine McCoy

American Graphic Design Expression

1990

Sylvia Harris

Searching for a Black Aesthetic in American Graphic Design

1997

bell hooks

Selling Hot Pussy: Representations of Black Female Sexuality in the Cultural Marketplace

1992

Adolf Loos

Ornament and Crime

1908

Hal Foster

Design and Crime

2002

Jun’ichirō Tanizaki

In Praise of Shadows

1933

Max Bill

Continuity and Change

1953

Michael Rock

The Designer As Author

1996

Joan Didion

Why I Write

1976