Who can afford to be critical? :  an inquiry into what we can't do alone, as designers, and into what we might be able to do together, as people / 
Afonso Matos (ed.) ; with contributions from Silvio Lorusso, J. Dakota Brown, Marianela D'Aprile, Somnath Bhatt, Danielle Aubert, Jack Henrie Fisher, Alan Smart, Greg Mihalko, Evening Class, and DAE students 2021/2022. 
 - First edition. 
 - 90 pages :  illustrations (chiefly color) ;  21 cm 
<br/><br/> "Set Margins' #11."--Colophon  Cover title 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references. 
<br/><br/> Introduction --  The school is a sandbox and the world outside has nothing to do with it : A. Meetings transcript ; B. No problem: design school as promise (excerpts) /  I tried to subvert capitalism with my design practice. Now I'm looking for a job. : A. "The subject supposed to recycle" /  B. What we can't do /  Framing design as art or as an ontological life force is all fun and games until you have to pay your rent ;  A. Meetings transcripts ; B. 6 theses on the deprofessionalization of design /  C. Typography, automation and the division of labor (excerpts) /  D. If "labor is entitled to all it creates", where does that leave graphic design? (excerpts) /  E. Not everything is 'architecture' (excerpts) /  What if designers unionized...? Haha just kidding... Unless...... : A. Meetings transcripts ; B. Politics beyond design /  C. What could a union do for graphic design? /  D. About the International Typographical Union (excerpts) /  Responsibility by the editor.  Silvio Lorusso --  as explained by Mark Fisher --  Afonso Matos ; C. Meetings transcripts ; D. Systemic change' /  Afonso Matos --  Silvio Lorusso --  J. Dakota Brown --  interview by Somnath Bhatt with Jack Henrie Fisher, Alan Smart, Greg Mihalko and Danielle Aubert --  Marianela D'Aprile --  Afonso Matos --  mixed materials by Evening Class --  J. Dakota Brown --  1.  2.  3.  4. 
<br/><br/> "Critical Designers' produced by an increasing number of design schools are prompted to address social, political and environmental issues through their practices. Yet, who can afford to continue such effort after graduation? In a dynamic style holding multiple voices, Who Can Afford To Be Critical? discusses the limits that affordability, class and labour impose upon the educational promise of holding a 'critical' practice. Why do we tend to ignore the material and socioeconomic constraints that bind us as designers, claiming instead that we can be powerful agents of change? In fact, where does our agency lie? Instead of focusing on the dream of ethical work under capitalism, could we, instead, focus first on designers' own working conditions, targeting them as one immediate site for collective action? And can we engage politically with the world not necessarily as designers, but as workers, as activists, as citizens?" --Publisher's website (viewed March 9, 2023) 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9789083270630 9083270637 
<br/><br/><label>Nat. Bib. No.: </label>GBC340777  bnb 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Art and design--Study and teaching (Higher)<br/>Design<br/>Art--Political aspects
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>N345  / .W46 2022