A lexicon of terms has been written by theorist Stephen Wright for the Museum of Arte Útil and will serve as a textual tool kit for users. The lexicon includes terms that Wright feels should be 'retired' alongside what he refers to as 'emergent concepts' and 'modes of usership.' Stephen Wright is a writer and professor at the European School of Visual Arts. Toward a Lexicon of Usership is edited by Nick Aikens and Stephen Wright and designed by Collective works.
Stephen Wright is a Vietnam veteran, MFA graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop, and the author of four previous novels. He has received a Whiting Award in Fiction, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and a Lannan Literary Fellowship, and has taught writing and literature at Iowa, Princeton, Brown, and The New School. He was born in Warren, Pennsylvania, and lives in New York City.
Ta książka jest jak matematyczna granica — możemy zmierzać w stronę proponowanych tam rozwiązań, ale nigdy ich nie osiągniemy. Świetnie porusza wyobraźnię i utarte schematy.