> [!summary] Progressive Summary
# Structured Notes
## Definitions
## Chapter Summaries
### Imagining Eugenics
A tale of 2 benches - raises the question of who gets to have comfort in our society, and how the burden is on us to protect ourselves from the harms of society:
- https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2022/11/sarah-ross-archisuits/
- https://www.quietlunch.com/fabian-brunsing-spike-bench/
### 5 - Imagining the Future
Ronald Rael re-imagines borders in his book *Borderwall as Architecture: A Manifesto for the US-Mexico Boundary*.
What if instead of the $333.5 million used to build an 87-mile stretch of border wall between the Arizona cities of Nogales and Douglas, solar farms producing 60 megawatts of electricity could be built, powering 40,000 households in energy hungry cities of the Southwest?
> His work is a reminder that not only should we critique the world as it is, but we should reimagine it for what it can be.
He drew up plans for an Ambos Nogales Binational Library on the Mexico-US border. It was based on the Haskell Free Library in Opera House, built in 1904 on the Canada-US border.
Haskell Free Library and Opera House
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tAJr9PcIiSI
Teeter Totter Wall
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TaMThO4fJzo
Ayesha Siddiqi once tweeted, "Every border implies the violence of its maintenance."
- Makes me think of Paul Virilio's saying: "When you invent the ship, you also invent the shipwreck; when you invent the plane you also invent the plane crash; and when you invent electricity, you invent electrocution. Every technology carries its own negativity, which is invented at the same time as technical progress."
> The power of unjust systems lies in their ability to *naturalise* social hierarchies. This happens through law, yes, as when the U.S. Naturalization Act of 1790 limited citizenship to "free white persons." But the law is never enough to uphold (or overthrow) unjust systems. Oppressive (and liberatory) social structures require individuals to internalize social categories and cultural meanings, transmitting them through our language and everyday behavior, and socializing the next generation through education *and* play.
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