"Privileging declarations, right answers, proofs, and universals, culture is often banging away with the same blunt tools tht are completely inadequate to address contemporary chemistries of power. On the flip side of these logics, Medium Design offers no dramatic manifestos where things are new or right. Instead it only rehearses a habit of mind that has been eclipsed. Even at a moment of digital ubiquity, Medium Design treats space as an information system and a broad, inclusive mixing chamber for many social, political, technical networks. And just as it inverts the typical focus on object over field, it may invert some habitual approaches to problem solving, aesthetics and politics."--Back cover