ARC3716HS
Instructor: Ella den Elzen
Meeting Section:
Mondays 12:00-3:00 p.m.

What is our relationship to land? Under neoliberalism, land has become captured, delineated, and developed as a fungible asset, cut from to ideas of stewardship, reciprocity, and care. This seminar will explore the topics of subjectivity, land, and property within an intradisciplinary theoretical framework. Drawing from architectural and art theory, urban studies, geography, philosophy, political economic theory, this course will grapple with the lineages of contemporary theory, beginning with modern conceptions of subjectivity, and how the self-possessive individual is based on a racial and gendered construct. The second portion of the course will question the invention of property in land supported through racial capitalism and settler colonialism. Using speculative multi-media forms of representation, students will develop strategies to think critically about the formation of private property and how to analyze the material realities of our built environment.