LIMITED LANGUAGE: EXPANDED TABLE OF CONTENTS
0 Agenda What is hybrid media?
1 Critical Moments: Design in the matrix of visual culture
- Conflicting territory by Limited Language - the end of discipline
- The problem with design / To come 2009 - no more 'solutions'
- Design in crisis by Ezri Tarazi - on capricious aesthetics
- Patronising Prada by Nicky Ryan - on corporate appropriation of the avant-garde
- The Beckhams, UFOS, Conferences & Harringtons by Maziar Raein - illusion of style
- Love/hate by Johnny Hardstaff - on Stockholm Syndrome in graphic authorship
- Brand hijacking by Jonathan Bell - on post-consumers and the battle for authenticity
- Shock and awe by Limited Language - on violence as aesthetic and methodology in design
2 Critical Agents? Ethics and the politics of visual culture
- Who are the semionauts? by Limited Language - new configurations of the designer
- The last journalist/ To come 2008 - the designer as editor?
- Design politics by John Russell - on pseudo-activity and the excess of representation
- Illustrators, rather like women in The Bible... by Paul Bowman - on the cross cultural language of image-making
- Street acts by Esther Leslie - on Ben Wilson
- Work ethics by Mario Moura - does design need to get its own house in order first?
- State Britain by Limited Language - a facsimile of protest?
3 Tools
- Design and conflict by Limited Language - can vernacular design counter the corporate language of protest?
- Copyleft / To come 2009 - an alternative to copyright?
- Images of images: recording the traces of war by Limited Language - on photographs from the War in Iraq
- Diventity: identity, density and diversity by Ayssar Arida - on a strategy for intuition
- Speech, writing, print... by Michael Clarke - can typographic expression expose media rhetoric?
- Visual communication in 0.4 seconds by Limited Language - on chance operations
4 Tactics
- All in the process by Limited Language - on the aesthetics of relational communication
- Open work / To come 2008 - on process and complexity
- Malfunction as the crucial mode of experiment by Markus Miessen - on the value of failure as an alternative to the value of success
- Boredom, b'dum, b'dum by David Crowley - an alternative to the heady stimulation of communication
- What's better than being the best: the new or the necessary? by Laurie Haycock Makela - beyond experiment, to experience
- Slow times... by Limited Language - on the act of design as a counter to the culture of instant response
5 Tactics of Space
- Skylines and cityscapes by Limited Language - soundbite cities
- Analogous cities by David Phillips - the image and idea of a city
- Territory (facts on the ground) by Kevin Slavin - writing territory with minds and media [from the starter brief for a Fabric Workshop, May 2008]
- Exposing the line in film by Adam Kossoff - on borders, montage and negative space
- Some thoughts on the 'problem' of flat vector graphics by Julia Moszkowicz - a sense of space in the world of super-flat
- Report from the hawk-eye camera by Tom McCarthy - a cartography of event-space?
- Kodak moments and Nokia digits... by Limited Language - snap-shot travel
6 Sensual Aesthetics
- Silence is white, not golden by Limited Language - the relationship between sound, image and design
- Sound in violence / To come 2009
- The extra ear of the other by Joanna Zylinska - on listening to Stelarc
- Earlids and brainlids: on thoughts and sounds by Angus Carlyle - a concentrated listening experiment
- Sensual typography? by Limited Language - Robert Brownjohn, a review
7 Digital Aesthetics
- You can have any design as long as its digital by Limited Language - the loss of materiality
- The digital hand / To come 2008
- This page is no longer on this server... by Limited Language - channel zapping and hyper links
- Digital glass by Jon Wozencroft - a digital Arts and Crafts? Wishful thinking...
- After digital... by Limited Language - a digital Arts and Crafts movement
8 Critical Underpinnings
- Ticking off the list by Limited Language - on design history, unlisted...
- Radical practice: where do we go from here? To come 2009
- Before a manifesto by Metahaven - can we still write a manifesto from the ideological void?
- Critics don't R.I.P by Catherine Guiral - if we revive the critic, can we revive the culture of design?
- Hybrid writing as critical practice by Limited Language - a poetics of blogging
Final Thoughts: Unfinished processes
Bibliography/webography
Index of key ideas
Full reader credits
Image credits
