LIMITED LANGUAGE: EXPANDED TABLE OF CONTENTS 0 Agenda What is hybrid media? 1 Critical Moments: Design in the matrix of visual culture * Conflicting territory by Limited Language - the end of discipline * The problem with design / To come 2009 - no more `solutions' * Design in crisis by Ezri Tarazi - on capricious aesthetics * Patronising Prada by Nicky Ryan - on corporate appropriation of the avant-garde * The Beckhams, UFOS, Conferences & Harringtons by Maziar Raein - illusion of style * Love/hate by Johnny Hardstaff - on Stockholm Syndrome in graphic authorship * Brand hijacking by Jonathan Bell - on post-consumers and the battle for authenticity * Shock and awe by Limited Language - on violence as aesthetic and methodology in design 2 Critical Agents? Ethics and the politics of visual culture * Who are the semionauts? by Limited Language - new configurations of the designer * The last journalist/ To come 2008 - the designer as editor? * Design politics by John Russell - on pseudo-activity and the excess of representation * Illustrators, rather like women in The Bible... by Paul Bowman - on the cross cultural language of image-making * Street acts by Esther Leslie - on Ben Wilson * Work ethics by Mario Moura - does design need to get its own house in order first? * State Britain by Limited Language - a facsimile of protest? 3 Tools * Design and conflict by Limited Language - can vernacular design counter the corporate language of protest? * Copyleft / To come 2009 - an alternative to copyright? * Images of images: recording the traces of war by Limited Language - on photographs from the War in Iraq * Diventity: identity, density and diversity by Ayssar Arida - on a strategy for intuition * Speech, writing, print... by Michael Clarke - can typographic expression expose media rhetoric? * Visual communication in 0.4 seconds by Limited Language - on chance operations 4 Tactics * All in the process by Limited Language - on the aesthetics of relational communication * Open work / To come 2008 - on process and complexity * Malfunction as the crucial mode of experiment by Markus Miessen - on the value of failure as an alternative to the value of success * Boredom, b'dum, b'dum by David Crowley - an alternative to the heady stimulation of communication * What's better than being the best: the new or the necessary? by Laurie Haycock Makela - beyond experiment, to experience * Slow times... by Limited Language - on the act of design as a counter to the culture of instant response 5 Tactics of Space * Skylines and cityscapes by Limited Language - soundbite cities * Analogous cities by David Phillips - the image and idea of a city * Territory (facts on the ground) by Kevin Slavin - writing territory with minds and media [from the starter brief for a Fabric Workshop, May 2008] * Exposing the line in film by Adam Kossoff - on borders, montage and negative space * Some thoughts on the `problem' of flat vector graphics by Julia Moszkowicz - a sense of space in the world of super-flat * Report from the hawk-eye camera by Tom McCarthy - a cartography of event-space? * Kodak moments and Nokia digits... by Limited Language - snap-shot travel 6 Sensual Aesthetics * Silence is white, not golden by Limited Language - the relationship between sound, image and design * Sound in violence / To come 2009 * The extra ear of the other by Joanna Zylinska - on listening to Stelarc * Earlids and brainlids: on thoughts and sounds by Angus Carlyle - a concentrated listening experiment * Sensual typography? by Limited Language - Robert Brownjohn, a review 7 Digital Aesthetics * You can have any design as long as its digital by Limited Language - the loss of materiality * The digital hand / To come 2008 * This page is no longer on this server... by Limited Language - channel zapping and hyper links * Digital glass by Jon Wozencroft - a digital Arts and Crafts? Wishful thinking... * After digital... by Limited Language - a digital Arts and Crafts movement 8 Critical Underpinnings * Ticking off the list by Limited Language - on design history, unlisted... * Radical practice: where do we go from here? To come 2009 * Before a manifesto by Metahaven - can we still write a manifesto from the ideological void? * Critics don't R.I.P by Catherine Guiral - if we revive the critic, can we revive the culture of design? * Hybrid writing as critical practice by Limited Language - a poetics of blogging Final Thoughts: Unfinished processes Bibliography/webography Index of key ideas Full reader credits Image credits