Critical design textbook

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:

• Jeff Bardzell
• Shaowen Bardzell
• Mark Blythe

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