At The Border - e-flux

Editors Nick Axel, Jan Boelen, Charlotte Dumoncel d’Argence, Nikolaus Hirsch

Contributors Brett Neilson, Cindy Lin, Ifor Duncan, Stefanos Levidis, Justin McGuirk, Ersela Kripa & Stephen Mueller, Jason Waite, Dan Fox, Caitlin Blanchfield, Nina Valerie Kolowratnik, and more…

As twentieth-century dreams of globalization continue shattering into the third decade of the new millennium, what we find in their wake are borders. Regardless of its scale, the border takes the self as its subject, defining it in relation to an other. Today, these borders are both physical and digital, geographical and political, all around and deep within us.

At The Border is a collaboration between A/D/O and e-flux Architecture within the context of its 2019/2020 Research Program.

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22 essays

Unwalling Citizenship

Teddy Cruz and Fonna Forman

The Tijuana-San Diego border region is a global laboratory for engaging the central challenges of urbanization today: deepening social and economic in…

De-confining Borders: Towards Freedom of Movement

Charles Heller

Introduction After three months of stringent restriction on travel to and within the EU, Monday June 5 was heralded by the EU Commission as the “…

Where is the border?

Tatiana Bilbao and Ayesha S. Ghosh

Unlike tracings which propagate redundancies, mappings discover new worlds within past and present ones; they inaugurate new grounds upon the hidden…

Hostile Environments

Lorenzo Pezzani

In May 2012, the United Kindgom’s then-home secretary Theresa May announced in an interview the introduction of new, groundbreaking legislation in t…

The Magic of Borders

Shahram Khosravi and Mahmoud Keshavarz

In early March 2020, the Turkish government found itself stuck in a military conflict with Russia in Idlib, a border city in northwest Syria. The conf…

We just have to wait a little longer

Kyong Park

Almost everyone, outside of North Korea, thinks that the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) will eventually collapse and be absorbed by So…

The Unrequited Architectures of Desire

Cristina Goberna Pesudo

30 hours. On Thursday, March 12th, the newspapers were on fire. Every four hours their headlines changed. We woke up to the news that the following…

At the Border of Decolonization

Andrew Herscher and Ana María León

The colonial genealogy of the contemporary nation-state border frames any politics of their opening. Borders are opened when they are approached, conc…

Staying at Home

Andrea Bagnato

Red Zones The first time Italians heard the expression zona rossa (“red zone”) was in June 2001, in the lead up to the G8 in Genoa. In addition…

The South China Sea Monument

MAP Office

The South China Sea is a semi-enclosed sea. It is located south of China and Taiwan; east of Vietnam; and west and north of the archipelago composed…

Zoom In, Zoom Out

Lydia Kallipoliti

Within the short course of a few days, we’ve all come to meet and live on Zoom.1 In pivoting to online learning, we deliberate on how new forms of c…

Let’s Call it a Wall

Theo Deutinger

The border between the US and Mexico was first defined by the “United States and Mexican Boundary Survey” (1848–1855) in accordance with the Tre…

Littoral Ambiguities

Daniel Fernández Pascual

1. The Beetle and the Seagrass Against the Port If property depends on clearly defined boundaries … then coastal/marine property is complex and…

Significant Impact

Caitlin Blanchfield and Nina Valerie Kolowratnik

1. Wall On February 27, 2020 Ned Norris, Chairman of the Tohono O’odham Nation, addressed the United States House of Representatives Committee on…

No Day, No Night

Dan Fox

¶ I imagine limbo as an extraterritoriality without walls, without corners, windows, entrances or exits. I can also cast it as ocean and desert wi…

The Entropic Silence of Fukushima

Jason Waite

Jostling around our necks, the dosimeters flashed their readings and the ticking of the handheld geiger counter spasmed sporadically in alarm. We were…

An Ultraviole(n)t Border

Ersela Kripa & Stephen Mueller

The US-Mexico borderlands can be defined by shifting and intensifying bands of ultraviolet radiation that impact bodies in asymmetrical ways, enact ne…

Space Unleashed

Justin McGuirk

What is the opposite of an exodus? Not the flooding of people into a city, but its emptying out by a kind of implosion—the city withdrawing into its…

Weaponizing a River

Ifor Duncan and Stefanos Levidis

The Dam On the 10th of March, news reports emerged suggesting that Bulgaria had released water downstream from the Ivaylovgrad Dam on the Ardas, a …

How to Make a Forest

Cindy Lin

In Pursuit of a Single Map Munir is a 23-year-old high-school-educated data technician hired by a private geospatial mapping company in Bandung, an…

Capital Operations: Data and Waste

Brett Neilson

Borders are indispensable to capital’s formatting of the world. As social institutions, borders not only mediate relations of capital and state but …

Editorial

Nick Axel, Jan Boelen, Charlotte Dumoncel d’Argence, and Nikolaus Hirsch

At The Border is a collaboration between A/D/O and e-flux Architecture within the context of its 2019/2020 Research Program, featuring contributions b…

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Sovereignty, Climate change

At The Border is a collaboration between A/D/O and e-flux Architecture within the context of its 2019/2020 Research Program.

Contributors

Nick Axel, Jan Boelen, Charlotte Dumoncel d’Argence, and Nikolaus Hirsch Editorial
Brett Neilson Capital Operations: Data and Waste
Cindy Lin How to Make a Forest
Ifor Duncan and Stefanos Levidis Weaponizing a River
Justin McGuirk Space Unleashed
Ersela Kripa & Stephen Mueller An Ultraviole(n)t Border
Jason Waite The Entropic Silence of Fukushima
Dan Fox No Day, No Night
Caitlin Blanchfield and Nina Valerie Kolowratnik Significant Impact
Daniel Fernández Pascual Littoral Ambiguities
Theo Deutinger Let’s Call it a Wall
Lydia Kallipoliti Zoom In, Zoom Out
MAP Office The South China Sea Monument
Andrea Bagnato Staying at Home
Andrew Herscher and Ana María León At the Border of Decolonization
Cristina Goberna Pesudo The Unrequited Architectures of Desire
Kyong Park We just have to wait a little longer
Shahram Khosravi and Mahmoud Keshavarz The Magic of Borders
Lorenzo Pezzani Hostile Environments
Tatiana Bilbao and Ayesha S. Ghosh Where is the border?
Charles Heller De-confining Borders: Towards Freedom of Movement
Teddy Cruz and Fonna Forman Unwalling Citizenship

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