ABSTRACT

In Designing Social Equality, Mark Foster Gage proposes a dramatic realignment between aesthetic thought, politics, social equality, and the design of our physical world. By reconsidering historic concepts from aesthetic philosophy and weaving them with emerging intellectual positions from a variety of disciplines, he sets out to design a more encompassing social theory for how humanity perceives its very reality, and how it might begin to more justly define that reality through new ways of reconsidering the built environment.

chapter |8 pages

Introduction

chapter 1|6 pages

The Aesthetic Turn

chapter 2|6 pages

The Politics of the Unknown

chapter 3|14 pages

Aesthetic Distances Defined

chapter 4|11 pages

From the Critical to the Speculative 1

chapter 5|5 pages

Axiomatic Equality

chapter 9|8 pages

The Equity of Equidistance

chapter 10|5 pages

Strangely Equal

chapter 11|4 pages

The Invitation to Curiosity

chapter 12|12 pages

From Sustainability to Dark Ecology

chapter 13|10 pages

Revising Practice and Pedagogy

chapter 14|4 pages

The Death of Disciplinarity

chapter 15|3 pages

Beyond Prattle