​DIGITAL FEUDALISM AND SURVEILANCE CAPITALISM:

VIRTUAL AND POLITICAL URBAN BORDERS

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

WELCOME:

Chair Giovanni Santamaria

INTROFUCTIONS AND MODERATION:

Associate Prof. Pablo Lorenzo-Eiroa

Assistant Prof. Dong Sei Kim

PANELISTS:

“Insecurities” Sean Anderson, Undergraduate Program Director and Associate Professor, Cornell AAP

The Family, Re-appropriation of Housing in NYC, Jana Leo, PhD Thinker, Activist, Artist

“The map is the continuation of the territory by other means. The Campo Maripe community and the shale gas oilfield of Vaca Muerta” M7red, Pio Torroja and Mauricio Corbalan Directors

“On the Line: Aesthet(h)ics of Drawing Things Together”
Zulaikha Ayub, PhD Candidate, Princeton University, School of Architecture, Co-Director Logische Phantasie Lab

Borders and cities index more an economic system than the previous modern ideals of socio economic stability, health and equity. These economic systems are measurable in how the city form follows finance (Willis) rather than environmental, urban and architecture parameters. What are the consequences of Capitalism in architecture and urbanism? How can we denaturalize cities as business and present alternative scenarios? In a globalized economy, people cannot move but goods can. How can we disclose implicit and explicit political boundaries in the current neoliberal model? What are the possibilities for a Post-Capitalist Urbanism in the Post-Anthropocene? How is technology enabling or resisting these processes? How is the current Feudal Capitalism in Computation reinforcing or displacing this logic and physical and political borders?