"Cheapness is Not a Sense, George!": An Economic Critique of Design and Emotion Discourse

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2019-3-16

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Kaygan, Harun

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The body of works gathered under the title ‘design and emotion’, not surprisingly, constitutes a coherent set of definitions concerning their ‘subject’: This presupposed subject is capable of not only 'experiencing' the object (as opposed to 'using'), but also communicating his/her experience accurately. His/her reflections are then collected by positivistic means into a repertoire of sensualities, which forms the basis for further ‘designerly’ operations. Considering designed-objects and experiencing-subjects having interactions in an economy-proof void, in a laboratory-like medium devoid of monetary relations, design and emotion movement seems to miss that constitutive part of such interaction, which is also the condition of its own existence: Economy. The paper proposes to perform a theoretical critique of design and emotion discourse, emphasizing this purposeful, but not necessarily self-conscious forgetfulness that amounts to a repression, which can be symptomatically read to deeply understand this design approach.

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Design and emotion discourse, Economy, Methodology

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/68869

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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.2596010

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Design and Emotion (2008)

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Department of Industrial Design, Conference / Seminar

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H. Kaygan, ““Cheapness is Not a Sense, George!”: An Economic Critique of Design and Emotion Discourse,” presented at the Design and Emotion (2008), Hong Kong, 2019, Accessed: 00, 2020. [Online]. Available: https://hdl.handle.net/11511/68869.