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  • Disappearing Cities
    Tony Fry
    Disappearing Cities is a collection of over fifty short stories of invented cities, set in the not too distant future, destroyed by varied climate change impacts and linked natural disasters. The stories bring into question the relation between the natural and unnatural forces of change and expose responses to, and lessons learnt, from different disaster crises situations. Stor...
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    124,83 €

  • Disappearing Cities
    Tony Fry
    Disappearing Cities is a collection of over fifty short stories of invented cities, set in the not too distant future, destroyed by varied climate change impacts and linked natural disasters. The stories bring into question the relation between the natural and unnatural forces of change and expose responses to, and lessons learnt, from different disaster crises situations. Stor...
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    28,13 €

  • Political Breakout
    Tony Fry
    The book is totally preoccupied with thinking beyond existing political thought and institutions. It recognizes that irrespective of who or where we are, and no matter if we know it or not, 'we' now all live in 'the end times.' Most explicitly, this moment is expressed by evolutionary biology, making clear that planetary life is at the start of the sixth extinction event - a si...
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    79,89 €

  • Political Breakout
    Tony Fry
    The book is totally preoccupied with thinking beyond existing political thought and institutions. It recognizes that irrespective of who or where we are, and no matter if we know it or not, 'we' now all live in 'the end times.' Most explicitly, this moment is expressed by evolutionary biology, making clear that planetary life is at the start of the sixth extinction event - a si...
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    101,98 €

  • Writing Design Fiction
    Tony Fry
    Written by leading design philosopher Tony Fry, Writing Design Fiction: Relocating a City in Crisis is both an introduction to the power of 'design fiction' in the design process, and a novella-length work of fiction in itself-telling the dramatic story of the relocation of the City of Harshon.Set in the near future, Harshon, a delta city, is facing environmental catastrophe du...
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    44,74 €

  • A New Political Imagination
    Madina Tlostanova / Tony Fry
    The book presents the case for the making of a new political imagination by offering a critique of existing political institutions, philosophy and practices that are unable to provide the thinking, means and leadership to deal with the complexity and crises of specific locales and the world at large. ...
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    80,09 €

  • Writing Design Fiction
    Tony Fry
    Written by leading design philosopher Tony Fry, Writing Design Fiction: Relocating a City in Crisis is both an introduction to the power of 'design fiction' in the design process, and a novella-length work of fiction in itself-telling the dramatic story of the relocation of the City of Harshon.Set in the near future, Harshon, a delta city, is facing environmental catastrophe du...
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    167,56 €

  • A New Political Imagination
    Madina Tlostanova / Tony Fry
    The book presents the case for the making of a new political imagination by offering a critique of existing political institutions, philosophy and practices that are unable to provide the thinking, means and leadership to deal with the complexity and crises of specific locales and the world at large. ...
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    268,11 €

  • Unstaging War, Confronting Conflict and Peace
    Tony Fry
    This book presents the concept of ’unstaging’ war as a strategic response to the failure of the discourse and institutions of peace. This failure is explained by exploring the changing character of conflict in current and emergent global circumstances, such as asymmetrical conflicts, insurgencies, and terrorism. Fry argues that this pluralisation of war has broken the binary re...
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    78,54 €

  • Unstaging War, Confronting Conflict and Peace
    Tony Fry
    This book presents the concept of ’unstaging’ war as a strategic response to the failure of the discourse and institutions of peace. This failure is explained by exploring the changing character of conflict in current and emergent global circumstances, such as asymmetrical conflicts, insurgencies, and terrorism. Fry argues that this pluralisation of war has broken the binary re...
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    119,67 €

  • Design and the Question of History
    Clive Dilnot / Susan Stewart / Tony Fry
    Design and the Question of History is not a work of Design History. Rather, it is a mixture of mediation, advocacy and polemic that takes seriously the directive force of design as an historical actor in and upon the world. Understanding design as a shaper of worlds within which the political, ethical and historical character of human being is at stake, this text demands radica...
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    46,81 €

  • Design and the Question of History
    Tony Fry
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    206,22 €

  • Steel
    Anne-Marie Willis / Tony Fry
    Steel has, over centuries, played a crucial role in shaping our material, and in particular, urban landscapes. This books undertakes a cultural and ecological history of the material, examining the relationship between steel and design at a micro and macro level - in terms of both what it has been used to design and how it has functioned as a ’world-making force’.The research f...
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    52,26 €

  • Steel
    Anne-Marie Willis / Tony Fry
    Steel has, over centuries, played a crucial role in shaping our material, and in particular, urban landscapes. This books undertakes a cultural and ecological history of the material, examining the relationship between steel and design at a micro and macro level - in terms of both what it has been used to design and how it has functioned as a ’world-making force’.The research f...
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    226,03 €

  • Becoming Human by Design
    Tony Fry
    The last in Tony Fry’s celebrated trilogy of books continues his radical rethinking of design. Becoming Human by Design’s provocative argument presents a revised reading of human ’evolution’ centred on ontological design. Examining the relation of design to the nature of the human species - where the species came from, how it was created, what it became and its likely future -...
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    193,38 €

  • Design as Politics
    Tony Fry
    Design as Politics confronts the inadequacy of contemporary politics to deal with unsustainability. Current ’solutions’ to unsustainability are analysed as utterly insufficient for dealing with the problems but, further than this, the book questions the very ability of democracy to deliver a sustainable future. Design as Politics argues that finding solutions to this problem, o...
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    61,21 €

  • Design as Politics
    Tony Fry
    Design as Politics confronts the inadequacy of contemporary politics to deal with unsustainability. Current ’solutions’ to unsustainability are analysed as utterly insufficient for dealing with the problems but, further than this, the book questions the very ability of democracy to deliver a sustainable future. Design as Politics argues that finding solutions to this problem, o...
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    173,59 €

  • Starting with Sartre
    Tony Fry
    This is a new introduction to Sartre, guiding the student through the key concepts on his work by examining the overall development of his ideas. Jean-Paul Sartre is widely regarded as one of the most important and influential philosophers and writers of the twentieth century. His enduring influence in philosophy and literature is immense and his contributions to theories of hu...
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    167,90 €