Dimensions of Citizenship - Imre Szeman - On the Politics of Region

On the Politics of Region

Imre Szeman

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Warren Cariou, Bitumen Mine with Pipeline, petrograph, 2017.

Dimensions of Citizenship
May 2018










Notes
1

Mitch Smith and Julie Bosmannov, “Keystone Pipeline Leaks 210,000 Gallons of Oil in South Dakota,” New York Times (November 16, 2017), .

2

The term “extrastratecraft” was coined by Keller Easterling in Extrastatecraft: The Power of Infrastructure (New York: Verso, 2014) to describe protocols and standards connected to the design of structures and infrastructures, which generate outcomes that support and amplify neoliberalism.

3

The idea of “critical regionalism” is elaborated in Kenneth Frampton, “Towards a Critical Regionalism: Six Points for an Architecture of Resistance,” in "Anti-Aesthetic. Essays on Postmodern Culture (Seattle: Bay Press, 1983), 16-30.

4

Martin Heidegger writes that over the course of modernity, “Nature becomes a gigantic gasoline station, an energy source for modern technology and industry.” Martin Heidegger, Discourse on Thinking, trans. J.M. Anderson and E. Hans Freund (New York: Harper, 1969), 50.

Dimensions of Citizenship is a collaboration between the United States Pavilion at the 2018 Venice Architecture Biennale and e-flux Architecture.