Introduction: Mortality in Design

Connor Graham; Wally Smith; Wendy Moncur; Elise van den Hoven

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Introduction: Mortality in Design

Connor Graham, Wally Smith, Wendy Moncur, Elise van den Hoven

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Abstract

Precisely what is unsettling about modern technological construction is that, instead of holding together earth and sky, mortals and divinities, it penetrates the earth to extract resources, pushes beyond the sky with rockets and satellites, attempts to suppress mortality with medicine and drugs, and precisely in this attempt to control the body, rejects the art of dying, and thereby and in the very process the remembering of the divinities that is the most intimate part of human suffering.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	3-14
Number of pages	12
Journal	Design Issues
Volume	34
Issue number	1
Early online date	3 Jan 2018
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1162/DESI_e_00472
Publication status	Published - Jan 2018

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Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design

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