Pre-Specifics - Vera Bühlmann, et al.
The full title of this book is pre-specifics: Some comparatistic investigations on research in design and art. This book contains contributions by and conversations with a wide variety of people across many interesting disciplines, from jurisprudence to game design to English literature theory. This is also the first book I've read that includes the word 'rhizomatic' on its cover. The topic is design in its broadest and philosophically most immaterial sense. Contributors include Eric Zimmerman, Greg Lynn, Fiona Raby and Anthony Dunne. The conversations can be deep and quite erudite. Not for the intellectually faint of heart, but the insights are worth the effort.
From the back cover: This book argues that one of the promising strategies for the design disciplines of tomorrow can be seen in symbolizing the codes of virtual relations among material, biological, technological, cognitive, and medial perspectives. It provides material as well as a tentative theoretical framework to develop and bring to fruition thought-images for a design of the potential.
