Constructing Invisibility: Infrastructure, Militarization, and the Extreme Environment

Today, designers, researchers, and scholars must responsibly engage the entangled networks and delineated systems far beyond boundaries of typical design practice to engage in thoughtful critique of the past and consider counter-imaginations of the future. Our discussion of the unseen begins first with an understanding of the power of sight. A look back at the technologies of control implicated in documenting the world reveals the closely intertwined evolution of imperial occupation and technological progress. Constructing Invisibility continues the exchanges initiated during the first symposium and builds upon the diversity of knowledge shared. The late French philosopher Bruno Latour reminds us that “politics has always been oriented toward objects, stakes, situations, material entities, bodies, landscapes, places. This is in effect the decisive discovery of political ecology: it is an object-oriented politics. Change the territories and you will also change the attitudes.” This issue uses these economies, landscapes, and places, including the boundless corporations and destructive climate realities, to better see the world. Further, the collection of essays seeks to understand how the construction of such sight impacts civilian occupation in the remaining world. Illuminating stories and places has become the aim of this volume, and shedding light on distant territories has become confounded by extremity, complexity, disparity, and secrecy.

  • ISBN

    9781935935575
  • Title

    Constructing Invisibility: Infrastructure, Militarization, and the Extreme Environment
  • Author

    Jeffrey S. Nesbit
  • Publisher

    ORO Editions
  • Publication year

    2025
  • Binding

    Softcover
  • Language

    English

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Cite: "Constructing Invisibility: Infrastructure, Militarization, and the Extreme Environment" 28 Aug 2025. ArchDaily. Accessed . <https://www.archdaily.com/1033467/constructing-invisibility-infrastructure-militarization-and-the-extreme-environment> ISSN 0719-8884

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