Radical Intimacies

Designing Non-Extractive Relationalities

Oliver Vodeb (RMIT University)

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English

Intellect Books
23 May 2023

Graphic design; Interdisciplinary studies; Communication studies; Political activism

An investigation of the key aspects of capitalist domination and resistance to it in five sections: dialogue, power, land, interventions, and radical praxis.

This book engages radical intimacies with design, media, communication, and art. Radical intimacies imply a closeness to the world created through our relations, which work towards the decolonization of knowledge and the public sphere. The closeness is political as it involves qualities that constitute and enable an alternative and opposition to extractive relationalities imposed by capitalism.

The book connects frameworks on (de)colonization with the work of Memefest, an international network of people interested in social change through radical design. Bringing together original written and visual contributions from around the world, the collection connects universities, practitioners, and social movements. Contributors explore design as a central domain of thought and action concerned with the meaning and production of sociocultural life. The work presented operates outside the dominant social orders, narrow disciplines, and extractive paradigms and imagines and builds new worlds and social relations.

Edited by: Oliver Vodeb (RMIT University)
Imprint: Intellect Books
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Edition: New edition
Dimensions: Height: 230mm, Width: 170mm,
ISBN: 9781789386554
ISBN 10: 1789386551
Pages: 368
Publication Date: 23 May 2023
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Dr. Oliver Vodeb is an academic in the School of Design at RMIT University in Melbourne. He is the founder and principal curator of Memefest and Lipstick +Bread.

Reviews for Radical Intimacies: Designing Non-Extractive Relationalities

'A diverse collection of chapters ranging from the descriptive and matter-of-fact to the personal and anecdotal, thought-provoking interviews to captivating scholarly writings, Radical Intimacies is essential reading for academics, artists and activists interested in the crossover between design, arts and social change.' -- Stephen Duncombe, New York University 'Maybe we can think about power, and 'designing with' as opposed to 'designing for,' and designing with in contexts of power, and designing with in terms of maintaining and healing and mending and repairing the web of relations that make up the bodies, places, landscapes, and communities in which we live, that we are and inhabit, that we are destroying right and left.' -- Arturo Escobar, Kenan Distinguished Professor of Anthropology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA 'So particularly, with the onslaught of climate change coming it does surprise me. I'm just like, why are we not more openly dissenting to what's happening? Because it's going to destroy everything, and we should be defending it with everything we have.' -- Kyle Magee, anti-advertising activist, Melbourne