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Synthetica: Synthesis on Design, 67 episodes.

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Electric Language: Word Processing, Culture, and Thought

2

Design, Precarity, and the Refusal of Work: A Critical Analysis

3

Understanding Computers and Cognition: A Response to Reviews

4

The Matter of Design: Artifice, Mediation, and the Artificial

5

Stiegler Interview: Technics, Proletarianization, and the Battle for the Mind

6

Tradition Translated: Technology, Heidegger, and Japanese Architecture

7

Simondon: Technical Mentality

8

The Thingliness of Things: Design, Consumption, and Sustainability

9

What design can’t do (pt. 2)

10

What design can’t do (pt. 1)

11

Materialism Is Not the Solution

12

Interactive Media for Communicating Complex Systems

13

Heidegger on the Thing

14

Design-Politics of Undocumentedness

15

Can the Post-Soviet Think?

16

Ethics in Design Research

17

The Force of Form, the Effect of Genre

18

Ten Thousand Things: The System of Chinese Script

19

Ethics by Design: Things, Morality, and the Material World

20

Enframing Egypt: Disciplinary Power and Colonial Control

21

The Interior Structure of the Artifact

22

Frames of War: When Is Life Grievable?

23

Levinas and the Other

24

The Savage Mind

25

The Existential Self and Sustainability in Design

26

The Textility of Making

27

Heidegger, Space, and the Public Realm

28

Heidegger's Reading of Aristotle. Vision in Theory and Practice

29

Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics

30

The Depth of Design

31

Prometheus’s liver

32

Defuturing: a new design philosophy

33

Coming into being via un-natural selection

34

The Aesthetics of Hartmann and Bense

35

A cautious prometheus? A few steps toward a philosophy of design

36

Art as device

37

The Broad View of Aesthetic Experience

38

From tool to partner: the evolution of human-computer interaction

39

The Power of the Center: A Study of Composition in the Visual Arts (pt. 4)

40

The Power of the Center: A Study of Composition in the Visual Arts (pt. 3)

41

The Power of the Center: A Study of Composition in the Visual Arts (pt. 2)

42

The Power of the Center: A Study of Composition in the Visual Arts (pt. 1)

43

Epistemology and Ecology

44

Paul Klee: semiotic analysis of “Blumen-Mythos” (1918)

45

Minds, brains, and programs

46

Computing Machinery and Intelligence

47

Revisiting Herbert Simon’s “Science of Design”

48

On the second to the fourth waves of human-computer interaction

49

Vita delle forme: Forms in time (pt. 5)

50

Vita delle forme: The forms in spirit (pt. 4)

51

Vita delle forme: Forms in matter (pt. 3)

52

Vita delle forme: Forms in space (pt. 2)

53

Vita delle forme: The world of forms (pt. 1)

54

The logic of information: A theory of philosophy as conceptual design (pt. 4)

55

The logic of information: A theory of philosophy as conceptual design (pt. 3)

56

The logic of information: A theory of philosophy as conceptual design (pt. 2)

57

The logic of information: A theory of philosophy as conceptual design (pt. 1)

58

Why the AI Hype is Another Tech Bubble

59

On actor-network theory: A few clarifications, plus more than a few complications

60

DesignX: Complex sociotechnical systems

61

A short history of photography

62

The architecture of complexity

63

History of history and canons of design

64

What is "critical" about critical design?

65

Living with complexity (pt. 3)

66

Living with complexity (pt. 2)

67

Living with complexity (pt. 1)