Selected Poems3 reviews Francis Ponge Wake Forest University Press, 1994 Great selection, great translation + Major Screw-up + Excellently translated introduction to unclassifiable master It's a shame that Francis Ponge is not more widely read in America. It's an even bigger shame that so much of his work is left untranslated for the American reader.The two slim volumes translated by Lee Fahnstock, Nature of Things and Vegetation, are fine translations of his earliest work, and ...             When Things Start to Think19 reviews Gershenfeld Neil Holt Paperbacks, 2000 Personal-Fabrication releasing innovation and talent + When DESIGNERS Start To Think + Entertaining and Still Timely + Easy General Overall Read             Shaping Things (Mediaworks Pamphlets)13 reviews Bruce Sterling The MIT Press, 2005 Setting the agenda.. + Techno-futuristic ruminations on "spimes" and sustainability + A tool, in a way... If you're looking for a book on sustainable design, the intertwining of the informational and the material, and RFID, look no further. Sterling's account is more than a book for designers. Though some angles tend to originate from design-related topics, the implications and responsibilities ...             Hertzian Tales: Electronic Products, Aesthetic Experience, and Critical Design Anthony Dunne The MIT Press, 2006 As our everyday social and cultural experiences are increasingly mediated by electronic products?from "intelligent" toasters to iPods?it is the design of these products that shapes our experience of the "electrosphere" in which we live. Designers of electronic products, writes Anthony Dunne in Hertzian Tales , must begin to think more broadly about the aesthetic role of electronic products in ...             Poetry, Language, Thought (Perennial Classics)4 reviews Martin Heidegger Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 2001 The Thing + Remarkable One of the clearer expositions of Heidegger's later thought is Das Ding, anthologized in this volume. You are free to read the other selections ("the essence of language is the language of essence" ad nauseum) but das Ding begins with a phenomenological description of a Krug (a cup) that became ...             The System of Objects (Radical Thinkers)4 reviews Jean Baudrillard Verso, 2006 A seminal force in semiotics Beaudrillard's first book rocks + :D nice book + Rewarding 1968 analysis of psycho-sociology of consumption If you're academically inclined and into semiotics, this book should be part of your library. Any designer of systems, whether they be Web applications, lemon squeezers, or a marketing campaign, would probably find use of the insights offered here.             We Have Never Been Modern6 reviews Bruno Latour Harvard University Press, 2008 of course some people wouldn't like this book + Good but Complex + Engaging discussion of our views of culture and nature i loved this book: it questions the idea of repeatability, which means that it questions the religion of science (as practiced by amateurs)and it shows you how language has served the impulse towards duplicity. the book also has a certain tongue-in-cheek wit about it, and that makes the ideas more ...             The Social Life of Things: Commodities in Cultural Perspective (Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural ...1 review Cambridge University Press, 1988 Interesting This collection of essays is insightful but far from comprehensive, a good starting point for further discussion on commodification.             Technics and Time, 1: The Fault of Epimetheus (Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics)2 reviews Bernard Stiegler Stanford University Press, 1998 TECHNICALITY: FAULT & DEFAULT the technique and the time of Bernard Stiegler propose a philosophical analysis of technicality. Stiegler shows that this one is originating. If the Western culture analyzed the technique like a fault (Promotheus), it must now be seen like a defect, the defect even of the originating one. Heir to ...             The System of Objects (Radical Thinkers)4 reviews Jean Baudrillard Verso, 2006 A seminal force in semiotics Beaudrillard's first book rocks + :D nice book + Rewarding 1968 analysis of psycho-sociology of consumption If you're academically inclined and into semiotics, this book should be part of your library. Any designer of systems, whether they be Web applications, lemon squeezers, or a marketing campaign, would probably find use of the insights offered here.             Selected Poems3 reviews Francis Ponge Wake Forest University Press, 1994 Great selection, great translation + Major Screw-up + Excellently translated introduction to unclassifiable master It's a shame that Francis Ponge is not more widely read in America. It's an even bigger shame that so much of his work is left untranslated for the American reader.The two slim volumes translated by Lee Fahnstock, Nature of Things and Vegetation, are fine translations of his earliest work, and ...             The Social Life of Things: Commodities in Cultural Perspective (Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural ...1 review Cambridge University Press, 1988 Interesting This collection of essays is insightful but far from comprehensive, a good starting point for further discussion on commodification.             Technics and Time, 1: The Fault of Epimetheus (Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics)2 reviews Bernard Stiegler Stanford University Press, 1998 TECHNICALITY: FAULT & DEFAULT the technique and the time of Bernard Stiegler propose a philosophical analysis of technicality. Stiegler shows that this one is originating. If the Western culture analyzed the technique like a fault (Promotheus), it must now be seen like a defect, the defect even of the originating one. Heir to ...             Poetry, Language, Thought (Perennial Classics)4 reviews Martin Heidegger Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 2001 The Thing + Remarkable One of the clearer expositions of Heidegger's later thought is Das Ding, anthologized in this volume. You are free to read the other selections ("the essence of language is the language of essence" ad nauseum) but das Ding begins with a phenomenological description of a Krug (a cup) that became ...             When Things Start to Think19 reviews Gershenfeld Neil Holt Paperbacks, 2000 Personal-Fabrication releasing innovation and talent + When DESIGNERS Start To Think + Entertaining and Still Timely + Easy General Overall Read             We Have Never Been Modern6 reviews Bruno Latour Harvard University Press, 2008 of course some people wouldn't like this book + Good but Complex + Engaging discussion of our views of culture and nature i loved this book: it questions the idea of repeatability, which means that it questions the religion of science (as practiced by amateurs)and it shows you how language has served the impulse towards duplicity. the book also has a certain tongue-in-cheek wit about it, and that makes the ideas more ...             Hertzian Tales: Electronic Products, Aesthetic Experience, and Critical Design Anthony Dunne The MIT Press, 2006 As our everyday social and cultural experiences are increasingly mediated by electronic products?from "intelligent" toasters to iPods?it is the design of these products that shapes our experience of the "electrosphere" in which we live. Designers of electronic products, writes Anthony Dunne in Hertzian Tales , must begin to think more broadly about the aesthetic role of electronic products in ...             Shaping Things (Mediaworks Pamphlets)13 reviews Bruce Sterling The MIT Press, 2005 Setting the agenda.. + Techno-futuristic ruminations on "spimes" and sustainability + A tool, in a way... If you're looking for a book on sustainable design, the intertwining of the informational and the material, and RFID, look no further. Sterling's account is more than a book for designers. Though some angles tend to originate from design-related topics, the implications and responsibilities ...