"Field notes from a continuous stream of conversations, classes, symposia, readings, interviews, site visits, meetings, walks, and meals during the last year and a half as we prepared the 3rd Istanbul Design Biennial"--P. [5].

Includes bibliographical references (pages 276-281).

The mirror of design : spiderwebs, sediments radiation, extinction self-surveillance -- The plastic human : plasticity, strange artifacts interface -- Blows of design : technofossils, prehistory genetic continuum hands, ornament sexual selection -- The invention of the human : tools, brain, curiosity -- The ornamental species : domestication, beads, networks, thinking strings, useless things -- New from nowhere : mechanical life, good design, morality, failure toys, functionalsim -- Good design is an anesthetic : smoothness, shock, smile shock absorber, nerves -- The design of health : dissection, x-ray, tuberculosis, fatigue, allergies, autoimmune burnout -- Human-centered design : camping, artificial limbs biology, survival, self-destruction, primal scene -- The frictionless silhouette : normal, human engineering, automaton biotechnique, discipline -- Designing the body : bodybuilding, hedonism nudism, libido, stomach psyche -- Design as perversion : fetishism, bondage voyeurism, erotica scatology, pedophilia -- Designing a ghost : scale figure, protohumans clothing, lurking shadows -- The unstable body : microbiome, prosthetics plastic surgery, drugs biodesign, chimera -- Homo cellular : intimacy, connectivity shelter, computation selfie, surveillance -- Design in 2 seconds : social media, avatar hybrid space, the bed postlabor, self-design.