Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Introduction; Part I First Pass; 1 End of the Story; 2 Start of a Story; 3 Proximity: A Question of Distances; Part II Emergence over Origin-A Relational Account; 4 Coming into Being via Natural Selection; 5 Coming into Being via Un-natural Selection; 6 Coming into Being via Design; Part III The Leap; 7 Why Make the Leap?; 8 The Passage from 'Here and Now' to 'Then'; Part IV From 'Where We Were' to 'Where We Are'; 9 World-in-Being; 10 Imagination in a Blink of an Eye; 11 On the Subject of the Subject; Part V Now-ings
12 Living in Darkness13 Postpolitical Prospects; 14 The Rise of Another Other; 15 Last Words; Notes; Select Bibliography; Index
Summary
The last in Tony Fry's celebrated trilogy of books continues his radical rethinking of design. Becoming Human by Design 's provocative argument presents a revised reading of human 'evolution' centred on ontological design. Examining the relation of design to the nature of the human species - where the species came from, how it was created, what it became and its likely future - Fry asserts that current biological and social models of evolution are an insufficient explanation of how 'we humans' became what we are. Making a case for ontological design as an evolutionary agency, the book posits t
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-253) and index
