while I’m in the midst of several things coming together, I thought I’d post a few people and projects that are somehow related and some writings and ideas I find floating around my head quite often… there are many others but these are a few quick highlights. (click through to the post for links)

 

Kelly Dobson’s ScreamBody, part of her Wearable Body Organs Series

 

critical design work by Anthony Dunne and Fiona Raby

 

WHAT IF? exhibition at the Science Gallery in Dublin in 2009, curated by Anthony Dunne and Fiona Raby

 

Michael Kontopoulos’ Measures of Discontent series

 

the work of Krzysztof Wodiczko and the Interrogative Design Group at MIT

 

Allan Kaprow and his explorations of Happenings and the intersection of art and life

 

the Situationists and Guy Debord’s Society of the Spectacle

 

writing of sociologist Erving Goffman, including The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life and Interaction Ritual

 

writing of Norbert Wiener and others on cybernetics

 

writing of philosopher and sociologist Michel Foucault on social institutions, power, control, and knowledge…

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