Freeway Architectures Of Biopolitical Disobedience

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2020-05

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IH-45 is an inconceivably large ribbon of infrastructure that acts as a border between political and geographic communities. IH-45’s margin shelters socio-politically marginal architectural programming. If we take space to be a material reiteration of power, then the contested and marginal territory of the NHHIP is a critical site for architectural consideration and engagement. Through non-hegemonic site analysis and the imagining of counter-futures at four sites along the NHHIP’s extent, this thesis re-conceives of the freeway’s marginal territory as site for liberatory praxis and theorizes modalities of activist engagement with megastructures and megaprojects.

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Biopolitics, Territory, Foucault, Liberation, Activism, Architecture, Infrastructure, Freeway, Motel, Cemetery, Strip mall, Land bank

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