Outer Edges 21st Century Spatial Metapolitics, Session VI

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• 00:00:00

  Hello everyone. Welcome to the sixth session of Nick Lan's Outer Edges 21st Century Special Metapolitics Seminar. Nick, I'm going to pass on the camera and microphone to you to start the class. Okay, cool. Welcome everybody. Great to see you all here. I hope people have a sense of the reading this week. I've…

• 00:23:47

  It's that for everyone, even if they remained in the East Coast, there was a very distinct geographical exit option available where they could very affordably buy themselves a wagon, and under certain circumstances, if they considered that things had deteriorated or become oppressive to an unacceptable degree, they…

• 00:45:54

  I mean it totally works on that sort of level. But it does mean that exactly like you say, you just cannot have the antagonistic approach for this. But I think this is why, you know, I would agree with probably people in a very hostile position who would want to say that what's being done here is basically kind…

• 01:06:49

  Yeah. ...is accepted as a kind of an element within the architectural project. So, obviously, the architecture has an interesting complex relation to politicization. But the normal way it evolves is to say that we've got this architectural vision, and we need to... We're being pushed into politicization by the need…

• 01:29:14

  And that's your fundamental constraint. Yeah. Yeah. I think that's totally right. And obviously on the flip side, as we've seen, it's into the contemporary theory of deterrence. I mean, from the side of, from the normal side, the side of the kind of existing ex-risk suppression discourses. Yeah. And the ones that some…

• 01:48:58

  Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. kind of piratical activity, like it's an engine of radicalization in that respect. The United Nations is their enemy by definition because of this structure of legislation. So unless there's some way of dismantling this whole legislative framework, it just means that…

• 02:12:17

  So it's just like the basic, what it's all about is having a boat and then doing that with some kind of possible collective coordinated, you know, thing. Yeah. And then on the other side, as you're saying James, it's like you could come with the fact that you've got some devastated, undeveloped country, dire poverty…

• 02:34:09

  How good were you? I'm going to post the comments and go. Bye-bye. Bye-bye. Bye-bye. Bye-bye. Bye-bye.