[audiobook] Conversations with Anne by Anne Bogart in Arts-Photography

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In Adversarial Design; Carl DiSalvo examines the ways that technology design can provoke and engage the political. He describes a practice; which he terms "adversarial design;" that uses the means and forms of design to challenge beliefs; values; and what is taken to be fact. It is not simply applying design to politics -- attempting to improve governance for example; by redesigning ballots and polling places; it is implicitly contestational and strives to question conventional approaches to political issues. DiSalvo explores the political qualities and potentials of design by examining a series of projects that span design and art; engineering and computer science; agitprop and consumer products. He views these projects -- which include computational visualizations of networks of power and influence; therapy robots that shape sociability; and everyday objects embedded with microchips that enable users to circumvent surveillance -- through the lens of agonism; a political theory that emphasizes contention as foundational to democracy. DiSalvos illuminating analysis aims to provide design criticism with a new approach for thinking about the relationship between forms of political expression; computation as a medium; and the processes and products of design.