Technical Lands
Technical Lands Designating land as technical is a political act. Technical lands are co-extensive with political and physical boundaries instrumentalized by their exceptional status. Doing so…
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Technical Lands
Designating land as technical is a political act. Technical lands are co-extensive with political and physical boundaries instrumentalized by their exceptional status. Doing so entails dividing, marginalizing, and rendering portions of the Earth inaccessible.
Technical lands include disaster exclusion and demilitarized zones, extractive industry sites, airports, and spaceports, among dozens of other typologies. Their remote location, delimited boundary, and active management occlude their visibility. Despite the recent emergence of a discourse on technical lands, our understanding of these geographies remains unclear.
Technical Lands: A Critical Primer assembles authors from a diverse array of disciplines, geographies, and epistemologies to illuminate the meanings of these