Archinect - Features2024-09-07T21:04:54-04:00https://archinect.com/features/article/150001598/social-object-relations-window-breaking-and-projective-identification
Social Object Relations: Window Breaking and Projective Identification Alan Ruiz2017-04-06T12:24:00-04:00>2017-04-06T12:24:21-04:00
<img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/6s/6s3e9gvsbjvnsgqu.jpg?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><p>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, <a href="http://archinect.com/news/tag/570574/black-lives-matter" target="_blank">Black Lives Matter</a> protests, and the inauguration of <a href="http://archinect.com/news/tag/460982/donald-trump" target="_blank">Donald J. Trump</a>, 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?</p>