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Already a classic, it would fit nicely between two other classics: Strunk and White and The Name of the Rose. Why should interaction designers read critical theory? Critical theory is proving unexpectedly relevant to media and technology studies. The editors of this volume argue that reading critical theory—understood in the broadest sense, including but not limited to the Frankfurt School—can help designers do what they want to do; can teach wisdom itself; can provoke; and can introduce new ways of seeing.

The editors offer a substantive introduction that traces the various strands of critical theory. Taken together, the essays show how critical theory and interaction design can inform each other, and how interaction design, drawing on critical theory, might contribute to our deepest needs for connection, competency, self-esteem, and wellbeing.

Bertelsen, Alan F. Writings on color from modernism to the present, by writers from Baudelaire to Baudrillard, surveying art from Paul Gauguin to Rachel Whiteread. Whether it is scooped up off the palette, deployed as propaganda, or opens the doors of perception, color is central to art not only as an element but as an idea. This unique anthology reflects on the aesthetic, cultural, and philosophical meaning of color through the writings of artists and critics, placed within the broader context of anthropology, film, philosophy, literature, and science.

Those who loathe color have had as much to say as those who love it. This chronology of writings from Baudelaire to Baudrillard traces how artists have affirmed color as a space of pure sensation, embraced it as a tool of revolution or denounced it as decorative and even decadent. It establishes color as a central theme in the story of modern and contemporary art and provides a fascinating handbook to the definitions and debates around its history, meaning, and use.

Art that seeks to produce situations in which relations are formed among viewers is placed in historical and theoretical context in key writings by critics and artists. The desire to move viewers out of the role of passive observers and into the role of producers is one of the hallmarks of twentieth-century art. This tendency can be found in practices and projects ranging from El Lissitzky's exhibition designs to Allan Kaprow's happenings, from minimalist objects to installation art.

More recently, this kind of participatory art has gone so far as to encourage and produce new social relationships. Guy Debord's celebrated argument that capitalism fragments the social bond has become the premise for much relational art seeking to challenge and provide alternatives to the discontents of contemporary life. This publication collects texts that place this artistic development in historical and theoretical context.

Varsava Umberto Eco has enjoyed extraordinary success both as a literary theorist and a novelist. Critical studies such as A Theory of Semiotics and The Open Work have reached sizable academic audiences while fictional works like The Name of the Rose and Foucault 's Pendulum have enjoyed a worldwide readership extend- ing, quite literally, into the millions.

Indeed, for those who favor viewing over reading, and a mark of Eco's mass appeal, The Name of the Rose was adapted for the big screen in with Sean Connery playing a leading role. As suggested in the metaphor of the title, and reinforced throughout the book, Eco likens reading to one's passage through a forest. Elaborating upon a simple taxon- omy established in his The Role of the Reader, Eco defines two types of authors and two types of readers. The Empirical Author and the Empirical Reader are ex- tratextual phenomena and, not surprisingly for a semiotician like Eco, of neither theoretical nor hermeneutic interest.

No, for Eco the game is played out between the covers of the work itself as we seek to understand the Model Author—a nexus of discursive strategies that establish the very quiddity of the text—and the Model Reader, that "set of textual instructions" invested in every narrative work Of course, as he acknowledges, his Model Reader bears similarities to Wolfgang Is- er's "implied reader.

A "first-level" Model Reader will fo- cus narrowly on events and actions, and work his or her way quickly through to the other side in order to reach the denouement as expeditiously as possible. Yes, Jay Gatsby does die tragically and stalwart Nick Carraway returns to the morally pristine landscape of his native mid-west. Alternatively, a "second-level" Model Reader elects to dawdle in the wood, exploring its many paths to learn more about the place itself. Such a reader will move slowly through The Great Gatsby, intrigued not so much by the building suspense in the novel as by the means through which the Model Author achieves dramatic tension and narrative inter- est.

In short,-the first-level Model Reader will attend to what the Russian Formal- ists called the fabula and what we refer to as the story or the natural chronology of events whereas the second-level Model Reader will focus on the sjuzhet, i.

Given his own performance as critic and novelist, there is no doubt what kind of reader Eco is himself and what kind of reader he hopes we will be. And, secure in their knowledge, and empowered by it, the tour guide and literary critic alike can be imperious, perhaps even a little condescending, on occasion. However, more traveling companion than intrepid pathfinder, Eco is a guide of another stripe in Six Walks.

Wearing his considerable erudition lightly, he moves through a number of popular and canonical texts—Nerval's neglected fiction, Sylvie, is a personal favorite of the author's—offering various insights on generic conventions, inter- textual relations, and the ontological status of stories and storytelling.

Overall, Eco's essays achieve an immediacy and charm that are not invariably present in academic lectures.

Six Walks provides a readily accessible overview of Eco's ideas on reader- response and narrative semiotics as they have emerged over the last few decades. Further, the book serves as a loose critical complement to Eco's own novels and those of other innovative writers whom Eco admires, people like Sterne, Joyce, and Borges, not to mention his late friend, Italo Calvino, fellow Italian and pre- senter of the Norton Lectures.

Buttressed by imaginative illustrations drawn from literature, film, and historical sources, Six Walks succeeds in capturing both the enthusiasm and wit of its author. Lee A. Daniel, ed. Other outstanding works by Bestard dealing with the Yucatan are De la misma herida and Ocasos de un mar de cobre , the latter as the official literary con- tribution of the province to the celebration of the th Anniversary of the Dis- covery of America.