- In his capacity as University of California, San Diego visual arts professor, Ricardo Dominguez bore the brunt of the official backlash against TBIT, including a formal accounting inquiry instigated by the university at the request of at least three Republican congressmen. On August 31, 2010, Glenn Beck launched his site, The Blaze, with the headline, in all capital letters, “ UCSD PROFESSORS: DISSOLVE U.S. — GIVE GPS PHONES WITH EXPLICIT POETRY TO ILLEGALS FOR BORDER CROSSING. ”
- Michel Foucault and Michel Senellart, The Birth of Biopolitics: Lectures at the Colle ge de France,̀
1978 – 79 (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008).
- We will revisit the potential of the User as geopolitical subject and “ the death of user ” in the User chapter.
- As compared to, for example, Aaron Koblin ’ s “ Flight Patterns, ” 2006, http://www .aaronkoblin.com/work/flightpatterns/index.html. For a more nuanced discussion of the telescopic scales of planetary striation, see Reza Negarastani ’ s lecture, “ The Topos of the Earth: Telescopic and Stereoscopic Visions of the Abyss-in-One, ” at the James Gallery, New York, February 21, 2013.
- Fredric Jameson, The Geopolitical Aesthetic: Cinema and Space in the World System (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1995).
- See Reyner Banham, Megastructure: Urban Futures of the Recent Past (London: Thames & Hudson, 1976). The recent lineage includes the New Monumentality, Fuhimiko Maki ’ s Collective Form, Kenneth Frampton ’ s Megaform, Italian neorationalists ’ typological piazza, Oswald Mathias Ungers ’ s Grossform, and Rem Koolhaas ’ s Bigness. See Antonio Negri ’ s essay, “ On Rem Koolhaas, ” and Martin Van Schaik and Otakar M á čel, Exit Utopia: Architectural Provocations, 1956 – 76 (Munich: Prestel, 2005). See also Sabrina Van Der Ley and Markus Richter, Megastructure Reloaded: Vision ä re Stadtentw ü rfe Der Sechzigerjahre Reflektiert Von Zeitgen ö ssischen K ü nstlern = Visionary Architecture and Urban Design of the Sixties Reflected by Contemporary Artists (Ostfildern: Hatje Cantz, 2008).
- The Bilbao region in Spain experienced significant economic growth concurrent with the opening of the Frank Gehry designed Guggenheim Bilbao and opening in 1997. The “ Bilbao effect ” is a termed coined by Peter Eisenman to refer to the misguided hope of second-tier cites that adding some flashy new architectural icons would magically boost their city ’ s brand and regional economy.
- Perhaps a future Erich von Daniken will interpret Foster ’ s structures as proof of alien intelligence on Earth ’ s moon.
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