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DEJ'IGN, FICTION, AND J'OCIAL DREAMING ANTHONY DUNNE & FIONA RABY Preface Acknowledgments 1 Beyond Radical Design? 2 A Map of Unreality 3 Design as Critique 4 Consuming Monsters: Big, Perfect, Infectious 5 A Methodological Playground: Fictional Worlds and Thought Experiments 6 Physical Fictions: Invitations to Make-Believe 7 Aesthetics of Unreality 8 Between Reality and the Impossible 9 Speculative Everything Notes Bibliography Index Speculative Everything began as a list we created a few years ago called A/8, a sort of manifesto. In it, we juxtaposed design as it is usually understood with the kind of design we found ourselves doing. B was not intended to replace A but to simply add another dimension, something to compare it to and facilitate discussion. Ideally, C, D, E, and many others would follow. This book unpacks the B bit of the list, making connections between usually disparate ideas, locating them within an expanded notion of contemporary design practice, and establishing some historical links. It is not a straightforward survey, anthology of essays, or monograph but offers a very specific view o......