Linda Rampell: The Shopmodern Condition
Linda Rampell: The Shopmodern Condition
| Author | Linda Rampell |
|---|---|
| Publisher | Art And Theory Publishing |
| ISBN | 9789163900075 |
| Idea Code | 16212 |
| Status | out of print |
In her previous work, Swedish design theorist and critic Linda Rampell has concluded that “the only -ism after postmodernism is consumerism”. The postmodern condition has become a shopmodern condition in which aesthetics and economics have merged into aesthetonomics, which defines an economy of evaluating how much a being is worth. This book explores how design consumption is no longer a simple question of making purchases and consuming goods. Instead, it means to become consumed by images, wherein even identities are consumed. Designdarwinism™ in this kind of image-culture is a life-and-death struggle for self-improvement.
| 256 p, no ills, 15 x 23 cm, hb, English |
Art And Theory Publishing
