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Lydia Kallipoliti

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Stills from Charles and Ray Eames, The Powers of Ten, 1968.

At The Border
April 2020










Notes
1

Taylor Lorenz, Erin Griffith, and Mike Isaac, “We Live in Zoom Now,” The New York Times March 17, 2020, .

2

For a full account of the image of the earth and its impact on visual culture, see Volker M. Welker, “From Disc to Sphere,” Cabinet 40 (Winter 2010-2011): 19–25; and Simon Sadler, “An Architecture of the Whole,” Journal of Architectural Education 61, no. 4 (2008): 108–129. For the history of the first earth image, see Denis Cosgrove, “Contested Global Visions: One World, Whole Earth, and the Apollo Space Photographs,” Annals of the Association of American Geographers 84, no. 2 (June 1994): 270–294; and Robert Poole, Earthrise: How Man First Saw the Earth (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2008).

3

Bruno Latour, Down To Earth: Politics in the New Climate Regime (Cambridge: Polity Press, 2017), 1–3.

4

COVID-19 Dashboard by the Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) at Johns Hopkins University (JHU), .

5

“It is ironic that NASA, probably the greatest government agency produced by America, has killed patriotism. National boundaries are simply not a motivating image when we have pictures of the whole earth.” Michael Shamberg and Raindance Corporation, Guerilla Television (New York: E.P. Dutton, 1971), 1.

6

“One NYC 2050: Building a Strong and Fair City,” .

7

Oliver Milman, “On a hot day, it's horrific': Alabama kicks up a stink over shipments of New York poo,” The Guardian, March 11, 2018, .

8

Hala Alyan, “This is not a Rehearsal,” Emergence (April 2020), .

9

See Edward T. Hall, The Hidden Dimension (New York: Anchor Books, 1966). Thanks to Austin Wade Smith for generously sharing with me his views on proxemic space.

10

See Quentin Meillassoux, After Finitude: An Essay On The Necessity Of Contingency, trans. Ray Brassier (Continuum, 2008).

11

Lydia Kallipoliti, The Architecture of Closed Worlds, Or, What is the Power of Shit (Zurich: Lars Muller Publishers and Storefront for Art and Architecture, 2018).

12

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, “Report to Congress on indoor air quality: Volume 2,” EPA/400/1-89/001C, 1989.

13

Jonathan Crary, 24/7: Late Capitalism and the Ends of Sleep (New York: Verso, 2014).

14

Slavoj Zizek, “Slavoj Zizek’s Covid-19 lockdown survival guide: Guilty pleasures, Valhalla Murders & pretending it's just a game,” RT, March 28, 2020, . Thanks to Nader Tehrani for this reference.

15

Sandor Ferenczi, “The Phenomena of Hysterical Materialization” (1919), in Theory and Technique of Psychoanalysis, comp. John Rickman and trans. Jane Isabel Suttie (New York: Basic Books, 1952), 89–105.