Abstract

This essay is a critical meditation on what design can do in times unprecedented of global uncertainty. In particular, the article interrogates not only how design can respond to crisis but also how it is at the root of interconnected crises. What design can do cannot be disconnected from the political philosophical question of what design is in the COVID and post-COVID era. Drawing on critical discourses in design theory and the theoretical humanities, the essay conceptualizes the material and political complexity of designing through the lens of biopolitics and necropolitics, and then interrogates what an ethics of theorizing design means in an era when design is at the intersection of multiple crises.

摘要

这篇文章是对设计在全球不确定性前所未有的时代可以做什么的批判性思考。特别是，本文不仅探讨了设计如何应对危机，还探讨了它如何成为相互关联的危机的根源。设计能做什么不能与在 COVID 和后 COVID 时代设计是什么的政治哲学问题脱节。本文借鉴设计理论和理论人文学科的批判话语，通过生命政治和死灵政治的视角对设计的物质和政治复杂性进行概念化，然后质疑在设计处于交叉的时代，理论化设计的伦理意味着什么多重危机。