Jordan H. Carver












A Merciless of Metaphors

2026

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Research, Articles

An article considering the media narrative of “metaphor” to describe Donald Trump’s very real institutional and architectural destruction. Published in Scroope from the University of Cambridge Department of Architecture. (forthcoming).


The Boomerangs Return Home and Accumulate at Our Doorstep

2026

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Research, Articles

Article on the return of imperial war-making technologies accumulating on the US-Mexico border. The article considers the imperial boomerang as theorized by Aimé Césaire via Hannah Arendt and Foucault. Published in the Cornell Journal of Architecture no. 13.


Drawing and Building

2025

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Research, Articles

An article in Abundance Not Capital, Angelika Fritz and Elke Krasny’s book on the work of Anupama Kundoo. The interview-style article addresses drawing, labor, equity, knowledge, and practice among other contemporary issues.


Leviathan’s Scaffolding

2023 – Ongoing

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Research, Events

Using the famous frontispiece of Hobbes’ Leviathan, this research and manuscript-in-progress questions the division of state and individual sovereignty and recasts both within discourses on race, violence, and white supremacy. State sovereignty is repositioned as a process of repeated failure, one that leads to Black death by distributing the monopoly of violence across a white population.


The Racial Logics of Abstraction

2023

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Events

A lecture on remote sensing, military aesthetics, and abstraction as a method of racialization. Presented at the Real Time symposium at Cornell University. Organized by Farzin Lotfi-Jam and Ekin Erar, graphics by MTWTF





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