Kalyani Tupkary

you should collect whatever you fancy. And some things are obvious: images, quotes, facts. But there are non-obvious things that will come in handy one day. Analogies, metaphors, ideas, models, assumptions, habits, patterns, vibes, objects that express ideas, images that evoke occasions, things you don’t understand yet but that you feel will mean

The filing cabinet encouraged the drive to break more and more of modern life and its everyday routines into discrete, observable, and manageable parts

Products are never neutral. They are always influenced by the thoughts and beliefs of the designers, engineers, and corporations who produce them. Politics of power is a set of power-strips that are openly designed to look, behave and experience the hidden ideologies in everyday products.

I n eighty-five essays, contributors nominate “extinct” objects and address them in a series of short, vivid, sometimes personal accounts, speaking not only of obsolete technologies, but of other ways of thinking, making, and interacting with the world.  Extinct  is filled with curious, half-remembered objects, each one evoking a future that never