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Social Object Relations: Window Breaking and Projective Identification

2017-04-06T12:24:00-04:00

Throughout modern history, the shattered transparent envelope has, in various ways, indexed social crises wherein revolution leads to the dismantling of the crystalline boundaries between public and private property. From the Watts Rebellion, WTO, and G8 protests to the 2011 London Riots, Black Lives Matter protests, and the inauguration of Donald J. Trump, the shattered glass window repeatedly proves to be a site of counter-identification with systems of oppression under late capitalism. Learning from these events, how might we differently consider the act of window-breaking beyond the conventional understandings of protest and felony, and instead, reframe it as an intersubjective form of resistance and disavowal?

Invasion: A First-Hand View of Gentrification in San Francisco

2014-11-24T10:13:00-05:00

A recent Bay Area transplant sees old and new duke it out over the Bay Area's shifting public-private fault line.

Screen/Print #15: Sophie Yanow's "War of Streets and Houses"

2014-05-08T09:47:00-04:00

Student protests broke out in Montreal in February of 2012, rallying against Quebec’s proposed university tuition hike. The protests were massive, flooding the streets for days with students, sympathizers and police, while universities saw dramatic student walkouts. Sophie Yanow was one such sympathizer, whose experience in the protests made her reconsider the city as a place where systems of control are made physical. Her graphic novel, War of Streets and Houses, reflects on the protests and her own place in the city’s power structure.