Critical design textbook

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This book (now under contract with MIT Press) aims to provide an introductory textbook in critical and media theory, suitable for technology-oriented design students.

Title: Critical Theory and Interaction Design

Project team:

Topics and authors include:

Poetics

  • Bakhtin - McCarthy & Wright
  • Eco - Blackwell
  • Iser - Feinberg

Poststructuralism

  • Barthes - [Still Arm Twisting]
  • Baudrillard - Satchell
  • Foucault - Bowers

Critical Social Science

  • Hall - Churchill
  • Latour - DiSalvo
  • Scott - Sengers

Marxism

  • Althusser - Dourish
  • Benjamin - Pold
  • Marcuse - Stolterman
  • Zizek - Blythe

Feminism and Postcolonialism

  • Butler - Light
  • Kristeva - S Bardzell
  • Said -

Philosophers of Art

  • Aristotle - Cockton
  • N. Carroll - J Bardzell
  • Kaprow - Boehner
  • Kierkegaard - Bertelsen