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Technical Lands

Technical Lands

Technical Lands
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Technical Lands Paperback / softback - 2023

by Jeffrey S. Nesbit

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Technical lands are spaces united by their "exceptional" status—their remote locations, delimited boundaries, secured accessibility, and vigilant management. Designating land as "technical" is thus a political act. Doing so entails dividing, marginalizing, and rendering portions of the Earth inaccessible and invisible. An anti-visuality of technical lands enables forms of hypervisibility and surveillance through the rhetorical veil of technology. Including the political and physical boundaries, technical lands are used in highly aestheticized geographies to resist debate surrounding production and governance. These critical sites and spaces range from disaster exclusion and demilitarized zones to prison yards, industrial extraction sites, airports, and spaceports. The identification and instrumentalization of technical lands have increased in scale and complexity since the rise of neoliberalization. Yet, the precise theoretical contours that define these geographies remain unclear. Technical Lands: A Critical Primer brings together authors from a diverse array of disciplines, geographies, and epistemologies to interrogate and theorize the meaning and increasing significance of technical lands.

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  • Title Technical Lands
  • Author Jeffrey S. Nesbit
  • Binding Paperback
  • Condition New
  • Pages 304
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Jovis Verlag
  • Publication date 2023-01-12
  • Bookseller's Inventory # B9783868597042
  • ISBN 9783868597042 / 3868597042
  • Weight 1.6 lbs (0.73 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.4 x 6.7 x 1 in (23.88 x 17.02 x 2.54 cm)
  • Themes
    • Demographic Orientation: Urban
  • Category Architecture
  • Quantity available 4

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Designating land as technical is a political act. Doing so entails dividing, marginalizing, and rendering portions of the Earth inaccessible. Technical lands are co-extensive with political and physical boundaries instrumentalized by their exceptional status. Their remote location, delimited boundary, and active management occlude their visibility. Technical lands include disaster exclusion and demilitarized zones, extractive industry sites, airports, and spaceports, among dozens of other typologies. Despite the recent emergence of a discourse on technical lands, our understanding of these geographies remains unclear. Technical Lands: A Critical Primer assembles authors from a diverse array of disciplines, geographies, and epistemologies to illuminate the meanings of these spaces.

About the author

Jeffrey S. Nesbit is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the
Office for Urbanization at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design.
Nesbit's research focuses on urbanization, infrastructure, and the evolution of
technical lands.

Charles Waldheim is John E. Irving
Professor of Landscape Architecture and Director of the Office for Urbanization
at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design. Waldheim's research
examines the relations between landscape, ecology, and contemporary urbanism.

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