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REDISTRIBUTION

DISCUSSION 6

Binaries, limits, and feedback loops: What keeps fundamental change such an impossibility? Is there a way out? And what alternatives are already present?

What is the chemistry that will allow for change?"

Part 1:

Keller Easterling is a designer, writer and professor at Yale. Her books include, Medium Design (Verso 2021), Extrastatecraft: The Power of Infrastructure Space (Verso, 2014), Subtraction (Sternberg, 2014), Enduring Innocence: Global Architecture and its Political Masquerades (MIT, 2005) and Organization Space: Landscapes, Highways and Houses in America (MIT, 1999).

 

References, Part 1:

- Karen Michelle Barad, Meeting the Universe Halfway: Quantum Physics and the Entanglement of Matter and Meaning (Durham: Duke University Press, 2006).

- Keller Easterling, Extrastatecraft: The Power of Infrastructure Space (London ; New York: Verso, 2014).

- Keller Easterling, Medium Design: Knowing How to Build the World (London: Verso, 2021).

- Katherine Franke, Repair: Redeeming the Promise of Abolition (Chicago, Illinois: Haymarket Books, 2019).

- Donna Haraway, "A Cyborg Manifesto: Science, Technology, and Socialist Feminism in the Late Twentieth Century," in Simians, Cyborgs and Women: The Reinvention of Nature (New York; Routledge, 1991), pp.149-181. https://www.sfu.ca/~decaste/OISE/page2/files/HarawayCyborg.pdf

- Andreas Malm, How to Blow up a Pipeline: Learning to Fight in a World on Fire, First edition paperback (Brooklyn: Verso Books, 2020).

- Oksana Miranova, "How Community Land Trusts Can Help Address the Affordable Housing Crisis," Jacobin, July 6, 2019 https://www.jacobinmag.com/2019/07/community-land-trusts-affordable-housing

- Elias Rodriques, "Abolition Is a Collective Vision: An Interview With Mariame Kaba," The Nation, March 29, 2021. https://www.thenation.com/article/culture/mariame-kaba-interview-til-we-free-us/

- James C. Scott, Seeing like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1998).

- James C. Scott, Against the Grain: a Deep History of the Earliest States (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2017).