{"id":1248,"date":"2015-12-04T23:21:00","date_gmt":"2015-12-04T23:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/mds\/?p=1248"},"modified":"2025-10-02T10:37:00","modified_gmt":"2025-10-02T14:37:00","slug":"exceptionalexceptionable-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mds\/2015\/exceptionalexceptionable-space\/","title":{"rendered":"Exceptional\/Exceptionable Space"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        Exceptional\/Exceptionable Space\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"240\" height=\"142\" src=\"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/mds\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/177\/epvjymxwi1hnsj9h9run-240x142.jpg\" alt=\"epvjymxwi1hnsj9h9run\" class=\"wp-image-1252\" srcset=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mds\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/177\/epvjymxwi1hnsj9h9run-240x142.jpg 240w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mds\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/177\/epvjymxwi1hnsj9h9run-160x95.jpg 160w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mds\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/177\/epvjymxwi1hnsj9h9run-400x237.jpg 400w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mds\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/177\/epvjymxwi1hnsj9h9run-360x213.jpg 360w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mds\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/177\/epvjymxwi1hnsj9h9run.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>\u201cMassive global systems \u2014 meta-infrastructures administered by public and private cohorts, and driven by profound irrationalities \u2014 are generating de facto, undeclared forms of polity faster than any even quasi-official forms of governance can legislate them \u2014 a wilder mongrel than any storied Leviathan for which there is studied political response\u201d<\/em><br>\n<em>\u2014 Keller Easterling<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>On Tuesday, November 17,&nbsp;<\/strong>internationally recognised writer, architect and speaker <a href=\"http:\/\/architecture.yale.edu\/faculty\/keller-easterling\">Keller Easterling<\/a> (Yale University) visited Carleton University to &nbsp;discuss her work on \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/kellereasterling.com\/books\/extrastatecraft-the-power-of-infrastructure-space\">Extrastatecraft<\/a>,\u201d political activism and global infrastructure platforms (such as <a href=\"http:\/\/io9.com\/the-rise-of-global-trade-cities-that-operate-outside-th-1670834740\">global trade zones that operate outside the law<\/a>, broadband in East Africa, and ISO\u2019s quality management).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The event was moderated by Roger Connah from the&nbsp;Azrieli School of Architecture &amp; Urbanism, who also introduced <em>Exceptional\/Exceptionable Space <\/em>(an interdisciplinary document co-written by Connah, Thaly Crespin, Luisa Ji, Daniel McNeil and Lee Michael Pronko in order to explore themes and issues relating to Keller&#8217;s visit as well as the productive tensions within and between the fields of Architecture, Urbanism, Migration and Diaspora).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>\u201cWhat then is Exceptional Space?<\/em><br>\n<em>A migrant ship afloat outside Thailand?<\/em><br>\n<em>Turned away, turned to where?\u201d<\/em><br>\nAn e-copy of <em>Exceptional\/Exceptionable Space<\/em> is available here:&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/mds\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/177\/EX_Pamphlet_2015v5.pdf\">EX_Pamphlet_2015v5<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; \u201cMassive global systems \u2014 meta-infrastructures administered by public and private cohorts, and driven by profound irrationalities \u2014 are generating de facto, undeclared forms of polity faster than any even quasi-official forms of governance can legislate them \u2014 a wilder mongrel than any storied Leviathan for which there is studied political response\u201d \u2014 Keller Easterling [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1249,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":"null"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1248","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1248"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1248\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1255,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1248\/revisions\/1255"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}