Pensamientos Genericos
Ideas and speculations from the borderlands
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As we analyze 20th-century global empire building, we must consider distinct actors in addition to hegemonic nation-states that challenged physical systems, organizational and political infrastructures, market-driven economies, and other drivers of national and regional sovereignty. In Large Technological Systems (LTS), such as shipping and rail infrastructure, there is a second layer of global private/public relationships…
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Manufactured landscapes. Infrastructure and nature’s relationship as an artificial sociotechnical entity is a fascinating undertaking. However, we should not fall into simple human/nature binary assumptions. Infrastructures do not separate humans from their environments. Instead, they overlap as new or different assemblages of human and non-human nature. Infrastructures allow us to understand the construction of our environment.…
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A brief review of the book; Impossible Engineering: Technology and Territoriality on the Canal du Midi. By Chandra Mukerji (2009). Imaginative understanding. Conventionally architectural history is taught in chronological sequence or via individual technological or artistic achievements. The historian E.H. Carr mentions, “The historian is necessarily selective. The belief in a hard core of historical…
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If there is magic on this planet, it is contained in water. Loren Eiseley Fluvial Cities. The history of fluvial structures in pre-modern times is a fascinating story of ancient technology and its sacred imaginaries. Water Infrastructure and the vicissitudes of its composition as flow, philosophical subject, memory, the discrete, the self-assembled, and exploitation of…
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In the next weeks, I will be posting short essays on the theme of infrastructure. Ideas about the nature and impact this concept has on our daily life. I will revisit some historical infrastructures and contemporary versions of them. Notes on what (and when) is infrastructure A Lecture, the Classical and the Machine. In October…
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Tijuana Covers It was worth the wait! Tijuana Covers, a project by Gerardo Molina and Fritz Torres, is finally on my bookshelf what an enormous job was to plot the city’s musical history via LP, Cassettes, and CD covers of the many bands that originated in Tijuana. Tijuana Covers is primarily a photo book with…
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In 2019, I was honored with the Herb Greene teaching fellowship at the University of Oklahoma. Since then, I have been part of the faculty and had a chance to visit Herb Greene’s legendary Prairie House just a few miles away from the campus. Herb Greene was a disciple of Bruce Goff while at OU…
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Estoy muy entusiasmado con esta propuesta para que nuestra región de SD/TJ se convierta en Capital Mundial del Diseño 2024. Esta propuesta incluye excelentes proyectos y amigos de ambos lados de la frontera. Y tengo que decir que ayudamos a recopilar una lista de personas y lugares que se incluyeron como parte de la presentación.…
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Tijuana has always been a city of migrants seeking a better standard of living. This includes the opportunity to cross to the other side_(USA) or to remain in the city and find employment in the manufacturing industry (which represents almost 50% of the economy) or in the service sector, which is supported by leisure tourism,…
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