Radical Intimacies (Paperback)

Oliver Vodeb

ISBN 10: 1789386551 / ISBN 13: 9781789386554

Published by Intellect, Bristol, 2023

About this Item

Paperback. An investigation of the key aspects of capitalist domination and resistance to it in five sections: dialogue, power, land, interventions, and radical praxis. This book engages radical intimacies with design, media, communication, and art. Radical intimacies imply a closeness to the world created through our relations, which work towards the decolonization of knowledge and the public sphere. The closeness is political as it involves qualities that constitute and enable an alternative and opposition to extractive relationalities imposed by capitalism. The book connects frameworks on (de)colonization with the work of Memefest, an international network of people interested in social change through radical design. Bringing together original written and visual contributions from around the world, the collection connects universities, practitioners, and social movements. Contributors explore design as a central domain of thought and action concerned with the meaning and production of sociocultural life. The work presented operates outside the dominant social orders, narrow disciplines, and extractive paradigms and imagines and builds new worlds and social relations. Engages radical intimacies with design, media, communication, and art and implying a closeness to the world created through our relations, towards decolonization of knowledge and the public sphere. Political closeness, involving qualities that constitute and enable an alternative to extractive relationalities imposed by capitalism. 50 col. illus. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Radical Intimacies (Paperback)
• Publisher: Intellect, Bristol
• Publication Date: 2023
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1789386551
• ISBN 13: 9781789386554
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: new

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Synopsis

An extradisciplinary investigation into the radical potentials of design by the global Memefest network.
 
This book is an investigation of the key aspects of capitalist domination and resistance to it through design; its five sections explore dialogue, power, land, interventions, and radical praxis. Vodeb’s curated chapters engage radical intimacies with design and connects it with media, communication, and art. Radical intimacies imply a closeness to the world created through our relations, which work towards the decolonization of knowledge and the public sphere. The closeness is political as it involves qualities that constitute and enable an alternative and opposition to extractive relationalities imposed by capitalism.

Radical Intimacies connects frameworks on (de)colonization with the work of Memefest, a global network of people interested in social change through radical design. Bringing together original written and visual contributions from around the world, the collection connects universities, practitioners, and social movements. This book explores design as a central domain of thought and action concerned with the meaning and production of sociocultural life. Contributors are interested in design that operates outside the dominant social orders, narrow disciplines and extractive paradigms and imagines and builds new worlds and social relations.

This inter/extradisciplinary collection of original works will interest academics, students, artists, designers, activists, and adventurous professionals who are interested in the crossovers between design, arts, and social change.

About the Author

Oliver Vodeb is an academic in the School of Design at RMIT University in Melbourne. He is the founder and principal curator of Memefest and Lipstick + Bread.