6.28.09

Caring critics

A reading note

Barringer, There’s nothing funny about design, page 129

If critics want to acknowledge a plurality of value systems, they shouldn’t ask “Who cares?” They should answer, “I care, and this is why.”

Amen. Criticism has no call to be fair and objective; it needs rather to be original, passionate, and personal.

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There’s nothing funny about design

David Barringer

A clever (and, yes, funny) collection of essays. Sidebars pepper the text with sources and commentary; the latter often reveal less about the subject matter than the nervous and endearing habits of the writer. more