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Interesting discussion about the brilliant “Design for the First World” on an MIT Media Lab list. One comment: “I suppose it’s tangential to the point she’s trying to make (which I agree is very cool), but neoliberal fat phobia is all wrapped up in the design of this project, and it’s not ok. There ought to be many better (and less sexist) ways to encapsulate the idea besides the one in which the thin, beautiful, underfed developing world saves our fat, lazy asses.” The person quoted then posts some links: http://kateharding.net/faq/but-dont-you-realize-fat-is-unhealthy/http://jezebel.com/5356697/fat-vs-fictionhttp://www.nyupress.org/books/The_Fat_Studies_Reader-products_id-11104.html What do you think?  Great point of Dx1W, wrong image?

Interesting discussion about the brilliant “Design for the First World” on an MIT Media Lab list. One comment: “I suppose it’s tangential to the point she’s trying to make (which I agree is very cool), but neoliberal fat phobia is all wrapped up in the design of this project, and it’s not ok. There ought to be many better (and less sexist) ways to encapsulate the idea besides the one in which the thin, beautiful, underfed developing world saves our fat, lazy asses.”


The person quoted then posts some links:

http://kateharding.net/faq/but-dont-you-realize-fat-is-unhealthy/
http://jezebel.com/5356697/fat-vs-fiction
http://www.nyupress.org/books/The_Fat_Studies_Reader-products_id-11104.html

What do you think?  Great point of Dx1W, wrong image?

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