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"There is no design for everybody"

bell hooks' essay on design (RIP, bell hooks)

"...Today design has little meaning for masses of people for whom interbeing seems only a romantic dream as they scramble to fulfill materialistic fantasies, believing—as everything teaches them to— that consuming is the only way to ecstasy. Sorrow stirs in me every time I face the myriad ways in which advanced capitalism removes the cultural conditions that would enable everyone, including the poor, to have access to learning an aesthetic appreciation of design." (Design:  A Happening Life, bell hooks)

Posted: December 19, 2021, 2:10 PM