The Earth That Modernism Built
This lecture explores the roots of the modernist project - both heroic and
tragic - to design the human by reshaping the environment, from the
domestic sphere to the earth at large. It examines how statesmen,
scientists, and designers mapped ethnicity onto territory and biology onto
architecture, and in doing so, conceived of the earthly environment as an
object of design. This entangled history of modernity demonstrates how
novel ways of thinking about and designing the environment were bound
up with natural science and the colonial project, asking us to reconsider
long-held assumptions about humanity's relationship to the earth.
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