Design and crime : and other diatribes

We cite from the COVER:
"Over the years, Hal Foster's criticism has inspired a politically charged postmodernism of resistance. This book throws the targets of this resistance into sharp relief. Foster argues that design - inflated by capitalist forces to influence everything from magazines to medicine — fuels a society of insatiable consumerism, at once constraining and deterritorializing, narcissistic and hollow. With polemical precision, his essays engage leading architects Frank Gehry and Rem Koolhaas on the rise of spectacle-architecture and the global city and, in the second half of the book, excavate the contested sites of art history, the museum, art criticism, and the ostensible end of art. The result signals a possible new path for twenty-first-century art."
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