{"product_id":"the-possibility-of-the-artificialthe-clive-dilnot-9781350070196","title":"The Possibility of the Artificial\/The Urgency of the Possible: The Urgency of the Possible","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn recent decades, the field of design has expanded. Moreover, there has been a significant historical shift to a world essentially defined by artifice. The onset of the Anthropocene - the epoch in which human impact upon our planet has become irreversible - is the most dramatic symptom of this phenomenon. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn these conditions, we are forced to consider the extent to which design should be understood less as a subaltern moment of action, and more as a necessary mode of \u003ci\u003eacting\u003c\/i\u003e in general. But what then are the characteristics, the advantages, the limits, and the possibilities of understanding acting in general through the model or lens of design? In particular, is the model of \"action as design\" capable of engaging with the destructive tensions bequeathed to us by the industrial economy, now reinforced by neo-liberalism? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis book offers a conception of our times, an examination in what is entailed in this view concerning the character of our century, and explores the implications of design and acting in the 21st century. Its underlying insight is the following: today it is the artificial, and no longer nature, which constitutes the horizon, medium and condition of existence.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Clive Dilnot\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 135007019X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781350070196\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Bloomsbury Visual Arts\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/04\/2027\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 160\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback","brand":"Clive Dilnot","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48453527240959,"sku":"9781350070196","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_3945c4a4-40e9-4da2-8be4-73a41bd3039b.jpg?v=1777300711","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-possibility-of-the-artificialthe-clive-dilnot-9781350070196","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}