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Precarious Objects: Activism and Design in Italy
Contributor(s): Vanni, Ilaria (Author), Breward, Christopher (Editor)
ISBN: 1526135531     ISBN-13: 9781526135537
Publisher: Manchester University Press
OUR PRICE:   $123.50  
Product Type: Hardcover
Published: December 2020
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BISAC Categories:
- Art | Criticism & Theory
- Art | History - General
- History | Europe - Italy
Physical Information: 0.56" H x 6.69" W x 9.61" (1.23 lbs) 160 pages
 
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Precarious objects explores the traffic between design and activism by telling stories drawn from contemporary counter-precarity cases in Italy. As a category of labour and of global social experience in general, precarity is a wicked problem that affects all aspects of life, regulating the production and circulation of a wide range of material and immaterial effects. In this book, three microhistories of counter-precarity explore existent forms of resistance and resilience to precarity. Drawing on ethnographies and archives and bringing together debates from design theory, cultural studies and geography, this study shows how design objects and practices recode political communication and reorient how things are imagined, produced and circulated. It also shows how design as a practice can reconfigure material conditions and prefigure ways to repair some of the effects of precarity on everyday life.