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Finding a Spherology of Feminisms for Designing Media

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In this chapter, I introduce a strategy for working both with and against Peter Sloterdijk’s Spheres trilogy ([1998–2004] 2011–2016). The spatial questions of Spheres are related to being-in the depressive sphere, which is better known temporally as the Anthropogenic epoch. This book brings new practice-based contributions to reading Spheres by providing design-ins (or entry-points) which act as wayfaring for design readers. By reconfiguring the feminist writers that are referenced in Spheres, I put forward a renewed strategy—that is, a spherology of feminisms. With new approaches to Spheres through embodied situations, methods and technological problems, this companion is relevant to the spatio-temporal aspects of design in general like studio practice, design layout or digital interaction.

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Windle, A. (2019). Finding a Spherology of Feminisms for Designing Media. In: A Companion of Feminisms for Digital Design and Spherology. Palgrave Pivot, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-02287-7_1

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