Javier Fernández Contreras, Youri Kravtchenko, Julie Enckell Julliard (eds.)
Often dissident, sometimes adherent, Nothing About is, in essence, indefinable because it is adaptive and fluid. Speculative or hands-on, this discipline – if we can call it that – displays all the ambivalences of our contemporary lifestyles: superficial and profound, profane and divine,… Read more
Oftendissident,sometimes adherent,Nothing Aboutis, in essence, indefinable because it is adaptive and fluid. Speculative or hands-on, this discipline–if we can call it that–displays all the ambivalences of our contemporary lifestyles: superficial and profound, profane and divine, present everywhere and nowhere,andoften regarded as futile, even though it could nonetheless destroy the most beautiful of insides.This book brings together a variety of intellectual tools andinsights–polysemic and ambiguous, bespoke and improvised, ornamentaland criminal,spanningmedia, technology,the artsand other,often undefined fields–that analyzetheimpactof the disciplineoncontemporary design. In the end, what makesNothing Aboutcharming is that this inside–insofar as it is still defined as such–has only the humble ambition of accompanying beings, both animate and inanimate, within their environment, like a friend who is never far away.
