https://jordanhcarver.org Jordan H. Carver Fri, 19 Sep 2025 12:50:16 +0000 https://jordanhcarver.org en https://jordanhcarver.org/The-Boomerangs-Return-Home-and-Accumulate-at-Our-Doorstep Thu, 11 May 2023 17:05:17 +0000 Jordan H. Carver https://jordanhcarver.org/The-Boomerangs-Return-Home-and-Accumulate-at-Our-Doorstep The Boomerangs Return Home and Accumulate at Our Doorstep OngoingFiled under: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 (forthcoming). <img width="4800" height="3394" width_o="4800" height_o="3394" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/87592aed7950dfb8ca388fe8ab2686e033b0496d0e860b4c3bb876999726e167/wall1.jpg" data-mid="179550338" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/87592aed7950dfb8ca388fe8ab2686e033b0496d0e860b4c3bb876999726e167/wall1.jpg" /> <img width="4800" height="3283" width_o="4800" height_o="3283" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/2941bf838f27b649eacd44c267703be788638e8a04d24c591fcd9e7b8cc3fb99/wall2.jpg" data-mid="179550339" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/2941bf838f27b649eacd44c267703be788638e8a04d24c591fcd9e7b8cc3fb99/wall2.jpg" /> <img width="4800" height="3283" width_o="4800" height_o="3283" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/3b78a3fdf7734ff652a2d59ae80cc94819d836c4c2cca5442285c68d1e5b470f/AJO.jpg" data-mid="179550335" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/3b78a3fdf7734ff652a2d59ae80cc94819d836c4c2cca5442285c68d1e5b470f/AJO.jpg" /> <img width="4800" height="3283" width_o="4800" height_o="3283" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/297b2bf0762d821ad12204f1bf3cd2a8d5332a3f9210dd915de0396795735d59/BLIMP.jpg" data-mid="179550336" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/297b2bf0762d821ad12204f1bf3cd2a8d5332a3f9210dd915de0396795735d59/BLIMP.jpg" /> <img width="4800" height="3283" width_o="4800" height_o="3283" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ab74b8b54dee828f31e957d7314eeb0027d8f63ef741e34de42dd8af6b849d84/ELOY.jpg" data-mid="179550337" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/ab74b8b54dee828f31e957d7314eeb0027d8f63ef741e34de42dd8af6b849d84/ELOY.jpg" /> https://jordanhcarver.org/Leviathan-s-Scaffolding-2023 Thu, 11 May 2023 12:02:33 +0000 Jordan H. Carver https://jordanhcarver.org/Leviathan-s-Scaffolding-2023 Leviathan’s Scaffolding 2023 – OngoingFiled under: 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. https://jordanhcarver.org/Leviathan-s-Scaffolding-2023-copy Fri, 19 Sep 2025 12:50:16 +0000 Jordan H. Carver https://jordanhcarver.org/Leviathan-s-Scaffolding-2023-copy Drawing and Building 2025Filed under: 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. <img width="596" height="839" width_o="596" height_o="839" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/8977a355e1eb3ec686728fc27ce4db6302a79b49e1aa39586b25ef9d10402b8e/AbundanceNotCapital.jpg" data-mid="238429865" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/596/i/8977a355e1eb3ec686728fc27ce4db6302a79b49e1aa39586b25ef9d10402b8e/AbundanceNotCapital.jpg" /> https://jordanhcarver.org/Real-Time-2023 Thu, 11 May 2023 15:19:24 +0000 Jordan H. Carver https://jordanhcarver.org/Real-Time-2023 The Racial Logics of Abstraction 2023Filed under: 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 <img width="640" height="480" width_o="640" height_o="480" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/41f9ec755f8de53739c42f07c28ec959ab53f046edfc03cd5c8090c14155728f/demonstration-of-licking-eating-and-drinking_30542224004_o.gif" data-mid="179559986" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/640/i/41f9ec755f8de53739c42f07c28ec959ab53f046edfc03cd5c8090c14155728f/demonstration-of-licking-eating-and-drinking_30542224004_o.gif" /> <img width="1440" height="900" width_o="1440" height_o="900" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/fde20709e9dd6047158c53a410e2e3779b28e5a4437e3a7a94649a152ef6c094/reatltime.gif" data-mid="179549779" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/fde20709e9dd6047158c53a410e2e3779b28e5a4437e3a7a94649a152ef6c094/reatltime.gif" /> <img width="800" height="600" width_o="800" height_o="600" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a270446628129ef92ba70d3a13fa57d18c6dfe65e13a13ed4fa916a69c36eca3/15drone.jpg" data-mid="179549673" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/800/i/a270446628129ef92ba70d3a13fa57d18c6dfe65e13a13ed4fa916a69c36eca3/15drone.jpg" /> <img width="1551" height="1310" width_o="1551" height_o="1310" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/6c9d813f90048c15b870d3b354320376b190e6ff4469d38a9957100647f071ff/IMG_1408_3.jpg" data-mid="179559987" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/6c9d813f90048c15b870d3b354320376b190e6ff4469d38a9957100647f071ff/IMG_1408_3.jpg" /> https://jordanhcarver.org/Architecture-the-State-and-Racial-Formation-2023 Thu, 11 May 2023 12:02:34 +0000 Jordan H. Carver https://jordanhcarver.org/Architecture-the-State-and-Racial-Formation-2023 Architecture, the State, and Racial Formation 2023Filed under: Research, Teaching Graduate seminar at Yale tracing the relations between race, space, and state—or, the “structural” forms of structural racism. The course considers how space, form, policy, and politics mediate state production and racial formation. <img width="1275" height="1650" width_o="1275" height_o="1650" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/efeea1bca3d30f9258e3feb2b4892f012c8080b26994f7641215b9ebcb93a9fb/Seminar-SP2023-FINAL.jpg" data-mid="179807488" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/efeea1bca3d30f9258e3feb2b4892f012c8080b26994f7641215b9ebcb93a9fb/Seminar-SP2023-FINAL.jpg" /> https://jordanhcarver.org/Post-Plantation-Landscapes-2023 Thu, 11 May 2023 12:02:34 +0000 Jordan H. Carver https://jordanhcarver.org/Post-Plantation-Landscapes-2023 Post-Plantation Landscapes 2023Filed under: Teaching Third studio taught with Mabel O. Wilson deploying the logics of the plantation to understand, explicate, and complicate the mechanics and techniques of enclosure and circulation. Modes of counter-plantation logics were used to intervene and produce new futures of liberation and abolition. <img width="1275" height="1650" width_o="1275" height_o="1650" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ed1abc829d514cfa067feaa8da2a08c246c60736841e42e87b43c8f748865405/Wilson_Carver_Adv-Design-Studio.jpg" data-mid="179807520" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/ed1abc829d514cfa067feaa8da2a08c246c60736841e42e87b43c8f748865405/Wilson_Carver_Adv-Design-Studio.jpg" /> https://jordanhcarver.org/Soft-Targets-2022 Thu, 11 May 2023 14:51:05 +0000 Jordan H. Carver https://jordanhcarver.org/Soft-Targets-2022 Soft Targets 2022Filed under: Research, Articles Article considering the Supreme Court’s designation of “sensitive places” as a means to address gun violence and a sharp critique against conservative politicians and gun lobbyists calls for expanding defensive architecture in public spaces. Published in&nbsp;PLAT no. 11. <img width="2268" height="1501" width_o="2268" height_o="1501" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e817c04d3d0d4cfa12ffa3add030b2af3f4c2102f56004b58951ff448cede699/LayeredSecurity.jpg" data-mid="179559550" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/e817c04d3d0d4cfa12ffa3add030b2af3f4c2102f56004b58951ff448cede699/LayeredSecurity.jpg" /> <img width="1918" height="2620" width_o="1918" height_o="2620" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/efd3167105936eca175feea4b5b0562f0f425f1c781a24bf6de84a4841e8da76/Cover_Page_1.jpeg" data-mid="179559545" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/efd3167105936eca175feea4b5b0562f0f425f1c781a24bf6de84a4841e8da76/Cover_Page_1.jpeg" /> https://jordanhcarver.org/Constructing-White-Sovereignty-2022 Thu, 11 May 2023 12:02:33 +0000 Jordan H. Carver https://jordanhcarver.org/Constructing-White-Sovereignty-2022 Constructing White Sovereignty 2022–OngoingFiled under:Research Dissertation and manuscript-in-progress on the long history of US-Mexico boundary formation and the racial discourses they mediate. The project looks at boundary mapping, monument making, fencing, walling, electronic surveillance, blimps, drones, immigration prisons, indigenous reservations, and Japanese internment as imperial practices of state making and racial categorization. <img width="1178" height="1500" width_o="1178" height_o="1500" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/346fca05519fffaedd80fabe99ab983ae375bc401725a772219f8de45c24546a/00-monument-1.jpg" data-mid="179838643" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/346fca05519fffaedd80fabe99ab983ae375bc401725a772219f8de45c24546a/00-monument-1.jpg" /> <img width="1300" height="989" width_o="1300" height_o="989" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/70a6f7d32e074db144ccc4dc841778dd5a7c68adcba213d4c48d68ebb40fdf17/01-Barreiro_1727_Map_New_Spain_full_detail.jpg" data-mid="179838645" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/70a6f7d32e074db144ccc4dc841778dd5a7c68adcba213d4c48d68ebb40fdf17/01-Barreiro_1727_Map_New_Spain_full_detail.jpg" /> <img width="1300" height="1037" width_o="1300" height_o="1037" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/9067709dee9e1b3bd475355118aea9dc39bb204da69f4dfa55bf938b16778049/02-1832-Map-of-United-States-of-Mexico-Second-Edition-1846-2-REDUCED.jpg" data-mid="179838807" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/9067709dee9e1b3bd475355118aea9dc39bb204da69f4dfa55bf938b16778049/02-1832-Map-of-United-States-of-Mexico-Second-Edition-1846-2-REDUCED.jpg" /> <img width="2000" height="1269" width_o="2000" height_o="1269" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/85fb178670a2937b3dc576570be2251319ff2c680be282a44799977f2554d6f1/03-Emorys-Monument.jpg" data-mid="179838859" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/85fb178670a2937b3dc576570be2251319ff2c680be282a44799977f2554d6f1/03-Emorys-Monument.jpg" /> <img width="4032" height="3024" width_o="4032" height_o="3024" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/560bd20d2ecd48d2af0d18a6651d17e65007a2c57fc7c899654c5d976fd73123/04-IMG_2982.jpg" data-mid="179838651" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/560bd20d2ecd48d2af0d18a6651d17e65007a2c57fc7c899654c5d976fd73123/04-IMG_2982.jpg" /> <img width="950" height="1281" width_o="950" height_o="1281" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a504a246a44984878698f7ce2e2bf0b31a32d8944e13a0923a9460fe291c65e9/05-obeliskdesign_03.jpg" data-mid="179838653" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/950/i/a504a246a44984878698f7ce2e2bf0b31a32d8944e13a0923a9460fe291c65e9/05-obeliskdesign_03.jpg" /> https://jordanhcarver.org/Post-Plantation-Museum-2022 Thu, 11 May 2023 12:02:35 +0000 Jordan H. Carver https://jordanhcarver.org/Post-Plantation-Museum-2022 Post-Plantation Museum 2022Filed under: Teaching The second in a series of three advanced studios taught with Mabel O. Wilson considering the plantation as a typological architectural, social, and economic model. Students unpacked the plantation logics of the contemporary museum, designing for legacies of colonialism, extraction, enclosure, dispossession, and racialization. <img width="1275" height="1650" width_o="1275" height_o="1650" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/db697633f8d286567e344b14119920cec54bdc4b60a95c583998e5b934deeaa8/Wilson_Carver_brief_F22.jpg" data-mid="179839058" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/db697633f8d286567e344b14119920cec54bdc4b60a95c583998e5b934deeaa8/Wilson_Carver_brief_F22.jpg" /> https://jordanhcarver.org/Fair-Labor-Apartment-2021 Fri, 12 May 2023 19:25:54 +0000 Jordan H. Carver https://jordanhcarver.org/Fair-Labor-Apartment-2021 (Towards a) Fair Labor Apartment 2021Filed under: Research, Design Apartment renovation using as many known-labor materials as possible. Fixtures, cabinets, hardware, and surface treatments were chosen from factories with known labor histories or from countries with robust labor and manufacturing protections. The general contractor was chosen based on broad on-site knowledge to minimize the use of subcontractors—a key site of wage dissolution. Most of the structure and spatial arrangement of the original apartment was maintained to reduce waste. <img width="3954" height="2932" width_o="3954" height_o="2932" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/0ab2544264e4b36fddab7ff6fa8dba7d886f9ba96303050371550e8e088d4092/kitchen_01.jpg" data-mid="179855810" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/0ab2544264e4b36fddab7ff6fa8dba7d886f9ba96303050371550e8e088d4092/kitchen_01.jpg" /> <img width="3954" height="2932" width_o="3954" height_o="2932" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/5d9604373ae553b00f3bd6e047aca7d6cc43b26012a37a8a8cc780220e6e43ce/kitchen_02.jpg" data-mid="179857238" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/5d9604373ae553b00f3bd6e047aca7d6cc43b26012a37a8a8cc780220e6e43ce/kitchen_02.jpg" /> <img width="3024" height="4032" width_o="3024" height_o="4032" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/3b46427cd6ff769d5e374b7fd6fac7081f66577e0734bd10e74f2f35ccd8ddad/bathroom_01.jpg" data-mid="179855808" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/3b46427cd6ff769d5e374b7fd6fac7081f66577e0734bd10e74f2f35ccd8ddad/bathroom_01.jpg" /> <img width="3024" height="4032" width_o="3024" height_o="4032" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/81f46417f04cf0c2f398fffca3dc965db3ca47b9c1aa309b174aca40fbb18915/bathroom_02.jpg" data-mid="179857237" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/81f46417f04cf0c2f398fffca3dc965db3ca47b9c1aa309b174aca40fbb18915/bathroom_02.jpg" />