Liminal landscapes: post-humanist heterotopian urbanism
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2012
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In the context of an increasingly autocratic society of control, architecture's apocryphal claims to the emancipation of life through the mechanism of public space must be challenged if the discipline is to survive as a critically and politically relevant cultural apparatus. Through a series of digitally-enabled investigations into the synaesthetically affective capacity of horrific form (and its imaging), this Master's Degree Project argues for a radical reordering of architectural thought and practice, a reordering that would emancipate architecture from the artificial strictures of reason and deliver it to a liminal space where it might work to redistribute power through populations in order to resist the suppression and subjugation of life itself. In order to achieve such a shift, the project seeks to weaken the fallacious notion that the individual human subject constitutes the most effective unit for navigating and intervening in an incomprehensibly complex world. The work is organized into a prologue, five 'acts', an epilogue, and a series of appendices that 'flesh out' the project proper.-The limitations of documenting the project demand a somewhat linear approach, but the work in this document consistently chases the temporal fluidity of cinema as a means of cultivating ambiguity and ambivalence. Like a Francis Bacon portrait, it is a narrative that tells no story.
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Bibliography: p. 156-158
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Cotter, R. (2012). Liminal landscapes: post-humanist heterotopian urbanism (Master's thesis, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada). Retrieved from https://prism.ucalgary.ca. doi:10.11575/PRISM/4853