Earth That Modernism Built

Earth That Modernism Built

Empire and the Rise of Planetary Design

Cupers, Kenny

University of Texas Press

11/2024

360

Mole

9781477330210

15 a 20 dias

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List of Illustrations
Introduction: The Earth as an Object of Design

From Determinism to Determination
Earth-Boundedness as (Anti-)Modernism
Geopower and Biopower
Deployments of Settlement
Racializing the Rural
A Constellation of Relationships


Chapter 1: Rooting Life in Land

Settlement between Colonialism and Reform
Theorizing Cultivation as Colonization
Designing Earth-Boundedness
Conflicts and Failures of Transplantation
Earth-Boundedness in the Wake of Genocide


Chapter 2: Arts and Technics of Internal Colonialism

Nativizing the Farmhouse
Reading Landscape, Making Race
Biopolitics of the Vernacular
Designing Colonial Order
Building Logistics and Imperial Regionalism


Chapter 3: Technifying the Soil, Designing the Human

From Soil Science to Social Order
Urban Gardening as Domestic Colonization
Grounding Biological Functionalism


Chapter 4: Infrastructure as Planetary Design

Empire's Technological Nature
Design and Geopolitics, a Wartime Alliance
Geopolitics after Empire?
World Order by Design
Engineering Continents to Uphold Supremacy
Infrastructural Specters


Epilogue: Spaceship Earth
Acknowledgments
Notes
Index
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architectural modernism; colonial settlement; Wilhelmine; Weimar Germany; Bodenstaendigkeit; earth-boundedness; settlement planning; Namibia and Germany; Raoul Heinrich France; Poland; Tanzania; German colonialism in Europe and Africa; Internal Colonialism; Ecology; Soil Science; Bauhaus; Planetary; Environmental Determinism; Functionalism; Geopolitics; Geopower; Biopolitics; Biopower; Vernacular Architecture