Technical Lands: A Critical Primer

Jeffrey S. Nesbit

ISBN 10: 3868597042 / ISBN 13: 9783868597042

Verlag: MC - De Gruyter, 2022

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Inhaltsangabe:

Technical lands are spaces united by their "exceptional" status―their remote locations, delimited boundaries, secured accessibility, and vigilant management. Designating land as "technical" is thus a political act. Doing so entails dividing, marginalizing, and rendering portions of the Earth inaccessible and invisible. An anti-visuality of technical lands enables forms of hypervisibility and surveillance through the rhetorical veil of technology. Including the political and physical boundaries, technical lands are used in highly aestheticized geographies to resist debate surrounding production and governance. These critical sites and spaces range from disaster exclusion and demilitarized zones to prison yards, industrial extraction sites, airports, and spaceports. The identification and instrumentalization of technical lands have increased in scale and complexity since the rise of neoliberalization. Yet, the precise theoretical contours that define these geographies remain unclear. Technical Lands: A Critical Primer brings together authors from a diverse array of disciplines, geographies, and epistemologies to interrogate and theorize the meaning and increasing significance of technical lands.

Über die Autorinnen und Autoren: Jeffrey S. Nesbit ist Postdoctoral Research Fellow am Office for Urbanization der Harvard University Graduate School of Design. Nesbits Forschungsschwerpunkte sind Urbanisierung, Infrastruktur und die Entwicklung von technical lands.

Charles Waldheim ist John E. Irving Professor fur Landschaftsarchitektur und Direktor des Office for Urbanization der Harvard University Graduate School of Design. Waldheims Forschung untersucht die Beziehungen zwischen Landschaft, Okologie und zeitgenossischem Stadtebau.

Jeffrey S. Nesbit is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Office for Urbanization at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design. Nesbit’s research focuses on urbanization, infrastructure, and the evolution of technical lands.

Charles Waldheim is John E. Irving Professor of Landscape Architecture and Director of the Office for Urbanization at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design. Waldheim’s research examines the relations between landscape, ecology, and contemporary urbanism.

Bibliografische Details

Titel: Technical Lands: A Critical Primer
Verlag: MC - De Gruyter
Erscheinungsdatum: 2022
Einband: PAP
Zustand: New