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Books like The Language of Things
The Language of Things by Deyan Sudjic is about design, objects and meaning, consumer culture. If that's what drew you in, here are 6 books that share its DNA — each summarized on Superbook, and ready to chat with in the app.
- The Design of Everyday Things
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Donald Norman · Psychology
The Design of Everyday Things began as The Psychology of Everyday Things when first published in 1988, and Donald Norman revised it substantially for a 2013 edition that updated the examples for a digital age.
Read the summary → - Experiencing Architecture
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Steen Eiler Rasmussen · Philosophy
Experiencing Architecture is the Danish architect and town planner Steen Eiler Rasmussen's attempt to teach non-architects how to see and feel buildings.
Read the summary → - The Shape of Content
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Ben Shahn · Philosophy
The Shape of Content collects six lectures Ben Shahn delivered at Harvard in 1956 as part of the Charles Eliot Norton Lectures series.
Read the summary → - The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power
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The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power
Shoshana Zuboff · History
Shoshana Zuboff spent years researching what she calls surveillance capitalism — a new economic logic in which human experience is turned into raw material for prediction products that are sold to businesses wanting to influence behavior.
Read the summary → - 1984
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George Orwell · Philosophy
Nineteen Eighty-Four is George Orwell's 1949 novel about a future England called Airstrip One, governed by the totalitarian Party under the figurehead Big Brother.
Read the summary → - 21 Lessons for the 21st Century
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21 Lessons for the 21st Century
Yuval Noah Harari · Philosophy
Where Sapiens traced humanity's past and Homo Deus speculated about its future, 21 Lessons for the 21st Century plants itself in the present.
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