Spartan Daily, May 15, 1980

Volume 74, Issue 69https://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/spartandaily/6636/thumbnail.jp

Borderland Appropriations: Globalization, Obsolescence, Migration and the American Shopping Mall

The notion of place embodies a complex intersection of architecture, occupancy, and identity. Tied to geographic and historical conditions, built environments existing between two worlds or within contested territories reveal the underlying political and social forces that have shaped them. Assuming an analogous relationship between consumption and architecture as interconnected systems, this dissertation examines American suburbia in the early twenty-first century to assess convergent flows related to consumption. It engages with the changing nature of retail form, function, and obsolescence to illustrate transnational and technological influences impacting suburban commercial architecture. More specifically, it analyzes occupancies, appropriations, and informal adaptations of retail environments in two distinct regional contexts in North America—the USA-Mexico Borderlands of Texas and the USA-Canada Borderlands of the Eastern Great Lakes region. This research charts the rise, fall, and transformation of the American shopping mall assessed via post-structuralist theories. Proposing that the obsolete mid-twentieth century shopping mall is a metaphor for the multicultural American city, this study employs dialectical—or comparative— practices to examine conditions which forecast increasing diversity in metropolitan futures. To establish a conceptual framework, two primary theoretical precedents were hybridized in this dissertation—the archival analysis of Walter Benjamin’s seminal The Arcades Project (1927-1940) and the theoretical lens of otherness— or heterotopias—proposed by Michel Foucault in Of Other Places: Utopias and Heterotopias (1984). Furthermore, the terrain vague territorial critique proposed by Ignasi Solà-Morales and the dérives of Guy Debord’s Situationist International influenced similar documentation techniques for suburban shopping malls characterized by marginal—or borderland—national, metropolitan, and social-economic conditions. Unlike most of the existing literature surrounding so-called dead malls, this research does not lament the demise of suburban drosscape or junkspace, but celebrates its incremental translation into an organic, nuanced, and temporal placeholder for actual urbanism. By means of case studies, this dissertation serves as a documentation device that identifies, theorizes, and archives largely ignored everyday suburban structures—transitional spaces of otherness serving the needs of immigrants and historically disadvantaged communities that are routinely demolished due to contemporary market pressures, planning initiatives, and real estate practices. In short, it draws awareness to informal actions that have transformed mid-century American shopping malls into liminal places threatened by gentrification and permanent erasure

The BG News October 28, 2005

The BGSU campus student newspaper October 28, 2005. Volume 96 - Issue 48https://scholarworks.bgsu.edu/bg-news/8505/thumbnail.jp

Material Conceptualisms: Philippine Art under Authoritarianism, 1968-1986

Material Conceptualisms: Philippine Art under Authoritarianism, 1968–1986 explores the subversive connotations of artists who experimented with organic, mundane, and/or vulgar materials at the state-supported Cultural Center of the Philippines (CCP) under Ferdinand and Imelda Marcos through four case studies: Jose Maceda, Roberto Chabet, artist collective Shop 6, and Luis “Junyee” Yee, Jr. While Ferdinand Marcos’ declaration of martial law resulted in the elimination of independent press, the limitation of assembly, and covert instances of violence, coinciding with nearly a decade of control was a flourishing art scene largely due to the efforts of First Lady Imelda Marcos. Yet under the conjugal dictatorship, more than half of all presidential issuances from 1972 to Ferdinand Marcos’ deposition in 1986 affected the relationship between the arts and the state in the Philippines. While artists exhibiting at the state-supported CCP were censured due to their presumed elitism and collusion with the Marcoses, close examination of their works reveals how art performed or displayed at the CCP was not necessarily beholden to the ideology of the regime. These artists proved that art made under surveillance could still refuse to adhere to, and even preclude, the instrumental desires of an oppressive dictatorship. In fact, the artists’ manipulation of vulgar or banal materials such as toilet paper, stockings, rubber tires, panty liners, banana leaves, and acacia pods resulted in indecorous displays that frustrated rather than upheld the administration’s program of beautification and progressive modernism. Thus instead of taking an explicit stance against the Marcoses, these artists provide a model of a more ambivalent form of resistance grounded in the implicit critique of Imelda’s pursuit of truth, beauty, and goodness, which at times bordered on self-parody. Combining textual analysis of artist interviews, archival documents, artist essays, and art criticism with sustained formal analysis of conceptual performances, installations, and objects, the dissertation argues that seemingly politically innocuous artworks by Maceda, Chabet, Shop 6, and Junyee proposes resistance under Ferdinand and Imelda Marcos not in binaristic terms, but as elastic and unequivocal processes.PHDHistory of ArtUniversity of Michigan, Horace H. Rackham School of Graduate Studieshttps://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/146098/1/tinale_1.pd

Vol. 56, No. 2, September 20, 2005

•Read the Inside Scoop on the Class of 2008 •M-Law Opens its Doors to New Orleans Students •Follow These Tips to Keep Your Computer Alice and Processing •Take the Nannes Challenge and Pump Up Your Student Organization\u27s Budget •Policy Implications of Deafening Construction •Lifestyle Advice to 1Ls •Open Your Ears to a Cross-Continental Summer Music Recap •Grade Curves •Federalist Society Kicks Off Year with Discussion of Eminent Domain Decision •I Know What You Watched Last Summer •Introducing the Poetry of Louise Gluck •Advice from an Alum on the Last Year •Commonly Asked Questions at Michigan Law •Crossword •Bar Night Pics •LSSS Gets Down to Business in 200

Vol. 56, No. 2, September 20, 2005

•Read the Inside Scoop on the Class of 2008 •M-Law Opens its Doors to New Orleans Students •Follow These Tips to Keep Your Computer Alice and Processing •Take the Nannes Challenge and Pump Up Your Student Organization\u27s Budget •Policy Implications of Deafening Construction •Lifestyle Advice to 1Ls •Open Your Ears to a Cross-Continental Summer Music Recap •Grade Curves •Federalist Society Kicks Off Year with Discussion of Eminent Domain Decision •I Know What You Watched Last Summer •Introducing the Poetry of Louise Gluck •Advice from an Alum on the Last Year •Commonly Asked Questions at Michigan Law •Crossword •Bar Night Pics •LSSS Gets Down to Business in 200