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Book SynopsisAs Angela Y. Davis has proposed, the “path to prison,” which so disproportionately affects communities of color, is most acutely guided by the conditions of daily life. Architecture, then, as fundamental to shaping these conditions of civil existence, must be interrogated for its involvement along this diffuse and mobile path.
Paths to Prison: On the Architectures of Carcerality aims to expand the ways the built environment’s relationship to and participation in the carceral state is understood in architecture. The collected essays in this book implicate architecture in the more longstanding and pervasive legacies of racialized coercion in the United States—and follow the premise that to understand how the prison enacts its violence in the present one must shift the epistemological frame elsewhere: to places, discourses, and narratives assumed to be outside of the sphere of incarceration.
Paths to Prison: On the Architectures of Carcerality offers not a fixed or inexorable account of how things are but rather a set of starting points and methodologies for reevaluating the architecture of carceral society and for undoing it altogether.
With contributions by Adrienne Brown, Stephen Dillon, Jarrett M. Drake, Sable Elyse Smith, James Graham, Leslie Lodwick, Dylan Rodríguez, Anne Spice, Brett Story, Jasmine Syedullah, Mabel O. Wilson, and Wendy L. Wright.
Table of Contents1. Extended Stay: i.e. “The More Things Change, the More Things Stay the Same”
Isabelle Kirkham-Lewitt
2. Carceral Architectures of Policing: From “Mass Incarceration” to Domestic Warfare
Dylan Rodríguez
3. Working to Get Free at the Rent Party
Adrienne Brown
4. Brushy Mountain and the Architecture of Carceral Extraction
James Graham
5. Fire Camp, Highway, Coal Mine: Geographies of the Carceral Quotidian
Brett Story
6. Processing Power: Archives, Prisons, and the Ethnography of Exchange
Jarrett M. Drake
7. “Nothing Stirred in the Air”: Affect, Sexuality, and the Architectural Terror of the Racial State
Stephen Dillon
8. Fighting Invasive Infrastructures: Indigenous Relations against Pipelines
Anne Spice
9. Zeroes and Ones: Carceral Life in the Data World
Wendy L. Wright
10. Design of the Self and the Racial Other
Mabel O. Wilson
11. Backward to Wayward: Listening to Archives of Disciplinary Education in Philadelphia
Leslie Lodwick
12. No Place Like Home: Practicing Freedom in the Loopholes of Captivity
Jasmine Syedullah
Images throughout by Sable Elyse Smith
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