Medium Design

Privileging declarations, right answers, proofs, and universals, culture is often banging away with the same blunt tools that are completely inadequate to address contemporary chemistries of power. On the flip side of these logics, Medium Design offers no dramatic manifestos where things are new or right. Instead it only rehearses a habit of mind that has been eclipsed. Even at a moment of digital ubiquity, Medium Design treats space as an information system and a broad, inclusive mixing chamber for many social, political, technical networks. And just as it inverts the typical focus on object over field, it may also invert some habitual approaches to problem solving, aesthetics and politics.

• The New Normal
• AI Aesthetics
• The action is the form. Victor's Hugo's TED talk.
• Dark matter and trojan horses. A strategic design vocabulary.
• The Terraforming
• Extrastatecraft: The Power of Infrastructure Space
• Digital Tarkovsky
• The Epic Struggle of the Internet of Things
• Less is Enough: On Architecture and Asceticism
• Speculative Everything: Design, Fiction, and Social Dreaming (The MIT Press)