Critical by Design?

Introduction: Critical by design? An introduction; Genealogies: What is a critical object? Design as <<desubjugation>> (after Foucault); The vitality of the negative: critical design between social philosophy and conceptual art; Ask what can be! Modal critique and design as drivers of accidence; What are the politics of ontological design? A critical reflection on the mutual becoming of <<the human>> and <<the world>>; Engaging in epistemic disobedience: on the decolonialization of design discourses; Unsettling individualized design practice through collaboration; <<Ci concimiamo a vicenda>>: building support structures as part of design practice; Re-visioning pelvic care through design; Trojan horses: ambiguity as a critical design strategy; Grey design: critical practices of design at the peripheries of the discipline; The ineliminable aesthetic dimension of art; Design culture as critical practice; What might be the speculative social?; Biased design, or the misery of neutrality; Undesign and understanding; Epilogue: The life and death of critical and speculative design: post-disciplinarity, post-truth, post-self and post-capital; Appendix: Critical by design? The book's design as SF figures; List of Figures & Tables; Biographies; Imprint.