Deleuze and Design

Betti Marenko is Senior Lecturer in Product Design at Central Saint Martins College of Art & Design, University of the Arts, London. She is the editor of DIY Survival: There is No Subculture, Only Subversion (C6 & Mute, 2005) and Segni Indelebili: Materia e Desiderio del Corpo Tatuato (Feltrinelli, 2002) and Ibridazioni: Corpi in Transito e Alchimie della Nuova Carne (Castelvecchi, 1997). Jamie Brassett is Course Director in Innovation Management at Central Saint Martins College of Art & Design, University of the Arts, London. He is co-author of Design Digestion (Tin Horse Design, 2007).

• 1. Jamie BRASSETT AND Betti MARENKO Introduction; 2. Jamie BRASSETT Poised and Complex. The becoming each other of philosophy, design and innovation; 3. Manola ANTONIOLI Design in Guattari’s Ecosophy; 4. Anne SAUVAGNARGUES Design machines and art machines; 5. Hugh CRAWFORD Thinking Hot: Risk, Prehension, and Sympathy in Design; 6. Betti MARENKO Digital Materiality, Morphogenesis and the Intelligence of the Technodigital object; 7. Derek HALES Re-designing the Objectile; 8. Vincent BEAUBOIS Design, Assemblage and Functionality; 9. John O’REILLY Milieu and the creation of the Illustrator – Chris Ware and Saul Steinberg; 10. Petra HROCH Sustainable Design Activism: Affirmative Politics and Fruitful Futures.

In a field decidedly weak in theoretical constructs, this book goes a long way toward aligning design studies with contemporary philosophy. But it also steers Deleuze in a new direction, unleashing the creative power and possibilities behind one of the chief philosophical figures of our age.