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Ornament and Crime continues to haunt me. ENOUGH!

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"We need to put design on the couch. Design is filled by what it wants to hide. The simple question 'are we human?' is just a way to say 'what is design?' until the confessions and the fantasies come out."

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"Design is never quite what it claims to be. Fortunately. Its attempt to smooth over all the worries and minimise any friction always fails, in the same way that almost every minute of daily life is organised by the unsuccessful attempt to burry the unconscious."

"With the death of God, design became the medium of the soul, the revelation of the subject hidden inside the human body. Thus design took on an ethical dimension it had not had previously. In design, ethics became aesthetics; it became form. Where religion once was, design has emerged. The modern subject now has a new obligation: the obligation to self design an aesthetic presentation as ethical subject." B. Groys

"The end of paid labour and its replacement with creative leisure was already envisioned in utopian projects of the 1960s and the 1970s by Constant, Superstudio and Archigram, including hyperequipped beds."

"The bed may have been the ultimate American office at midcentury. In an interview in the Paris review in 1957, Truman Capote is asked, "What are some of your writing habits? Do you use a desk? Do you write on a machine? To which he answers: "I am a completely horizontal author. I can think unless I am lying down, either in bed or stretched on a couch and with a cigarette and a coffee handy.""

"Industrialisation brought with it the eight-hour shift and the radical separation between the home and the office or factory, between rest and home, night and day. Postindustrialisation collapses work back into the home and takes it further into the bedroom and into the bed itself."