Cover -- Table of Contents -- INTRODUCTION -- Critical by design? An Introduction Claudia Mareis, Moritz Greiner-Petter & -- Michael Renner -- GENEALOGIES -- What is a critical object? Design as 0desubjugation1 (after Foucault) Annette Geiger -- The vitality of the negative: critical design between social philosophy and conceptual art Emanuele Quinz -- Ask what can be! Modal critique and design as drivers for accidence Bruno Gransche -- What are the politics of ontological design? A critical reflection on the mutual becoming of 0the human1 and 0the world1 Michaela Busse -- Engaging in epistemic disobedience: on the decolonialization of design discourses Mara Recklies -- PRACTICES -- Unsettling individualized design practice through collaboration Anja Groten -- 0Ci concimiamo a vicenda1: building support structures as part of design practice Interview with Bianca Elzenbaumer by Meike Hardt -- Re-visioning pelvic care through design Patrycja Zdziarska, Jeffrey Bardzell & -- Shaowen Bardzell -- Trojan horses: ambiguity as a critical design strategy Emile De Visscher -- Grey design: critical practices of design at the peripheries of the discipline Moritz Greiner-Petter -- POSITIONS -- The ineliminable aesthetic dimension of art Janneke Wesseling -- Design culture as critical practice Guy Julier -- What might be the speculative social? Carl DiSalvo -- Biased design, or the misery of neutrality Jesko Fezer -- Undesign and understanding Bjorn Franke -- EPILOGUE -- The life and death of critical and speculative design: post-disciplinarity, post-truth, post-self and post-capital Matt Ward -- APPENDIX -- Critical by design? The book’s design as SF figures Marius Forster & -- Meike Hardt -- List of Figures & -- Tables -- Biographies -- Imprint.