A Manifesto for the U.S. - Mexico Boundary
by Ronald Rael ; foreword Ted Cruz.
- Author(s)
- Ronald Rael
- Publication, year
- Oakland : University of California Press, 2017
- Scope
- 184 Pages, illustrated, 21 cm.
- ISBN
- 9780520283947
A re-examination of what the physical barrier that divides the United States of America from the United Mexican States is and could be. It is both a protest against the wall and a projection about its future. Through a series of propositions suggesting that the wall is an opportunity for economic and social development along the border that encourages its conceptual and physical dismantling, the book takes readers on a journey along a wall that cuts through a “third nation”—the Divided States of America. Coupled with these real-life accounts are counterproposals for the wall, created by Rael’s studio, that reimagine, hyperbolize, or question the wall and its construction, cost, performance, and meaning. Rael proposes that despite the intended use of the wall, which is to keep people out and away, the wall is instead an attractor, engaging both sides in a common dialogue. Included is a collection of reflections on the wall and its consequences by leading experts Michael Dear, Norma Iglesias-Prieto, Marcello Di Cintio, and Teddy Cruz.
- Location
- Cabinet 19 - 1: Architectuur en macht
- Remarks
- Incl. Indexes, Notes, Selected Bibliography, Biographies
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