Designing the Domestic Posthuman (eBook)

Dennis M. Weiss is Professor of Philosophy at York College of Pennsylvania, USA. He works at the intersection of philosophical anthropology, philosophy of technology, and philosophy of culture. He is the editor of Interpreting Man (2002) and co-editor of Design, Mediation, and the Posthuman (2016). He has published more than 30 articles in journals and anthologies on topics ranging from critical posthumanism to The Twilight Zone and the philosophy of Philip K. Dick.Colbey Emmerson Reid is Professor and Chair of Fashion Studies at Columbia College Chicago, USA. She is also the Founder and Executive Director of the Fashion Lab, a Chicago-based organization for academic-corporate partnerships in co-creating and executing custom design research and product development projects. She studies the interface of fashion and interior design with technology and disability studies. She co-edited Design, Mediation, and the Posthuman (2016) and contributed to Emerging Genres in New Media Environments (2017). She has won awards for her essays on design flaws and statistical aesthetics as well as for a series of external outreach and engagement projects executed in the Research Triangle in North Carolina in 2013-2016.