Radical Intimacies Designing Non-Extractive Relationalities

The 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 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 starting point of the book is that our very existence is the subject of relationalities as we are the relations, which constitute us. It engages radical intimacies with design, media, communication, and art. Radical intimacies imply a closeness to the world created through our relations, which work towards 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. It is a result of the Memefest extra disciplinary investigations, bringing together original written and visual contributions from around the world and connecting universities, practitioners and social movements. The process uniquely connects frameworks on (de)colonisation with Memefest's work on radical design and the original concept of radical Intimacies. The book investigates the key aspects of capitalist domination as well as resistance to it in five sections: dialogue, power, land, interventions and radical praxis. The focus is on 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. An academic collection, the audience will be academics, artists, designers and activists who are interested in the crossovers between design, arts, and social change. Students of design, art, media, and communication interested in social change. Higher level undergraduate and graduate students.

ISBN:	9781789386554
Publisher:	Intellect Books
Imprint:	Intellect Books
Published date:	20 Jan 2023
Language:	English
Number of pages:	368
Weight:	-1g
Height:	230mm
Width:	170mm

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