Papers by Eric Rogers
This essay examines contemporary misuses of urban space, finding theoretical lineages of these be... more This essay examines contemporary misuses of urban space, finding theoretical lineages of these behaviors, and theorizing how an intentional misuse of the city and its existing features may be essential for twenty-first century urban life. Yet, rather than only serving as a descriptive theory, which attempts to explain the significance of the misuse of space, this essay also proposes a discursive strategy that can be harnessed by spatial and urban thinkers and designers, so that they may make a self-conscious use of urban hacking as an informed and self-conscious practice that everyday people participate in.
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The present study re-evaluates the Progressive era in the United States from the standpoint of ca... more The present study re-evaluates the Progressive era in the United States from the standpoint of capitalist reproduction, yet does so in a way that ultimately transcends Marxist economic determinism. It considers the ways in which ‘progressive’ discourses problematized urban issues in such a way that these shaped knowledges and subjectivities which were instrumental in the shaping of the American metropolis during the period between 1894 and 1950. The city, and its physical features, operated as an interface between actors and the abstract aggregation of their actions in what would eventually be conceptualized as “the economy”. This study considers how the built environment, which served as such an interface, also was problematized as a site for economic, social and political intervention. This urban discourse in which these problematizations occurred is the protagonist of the thesis, since it is within that discourse that knowledge and subjectivity seem to have formed.
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At the end of the Progressive Era, the US Federal Government took a strong interest in the home a... more At the end of the Progressive Era, the US Federal Government took a strong interest in the home as a site of reproductive activities. The Better Homes in America campaign, sponsored by the Department of Commerce, problematized the home and the family in specific ways, contributing to the discourse of home economics as a means of exploring the optimal domestic arrangement for economic and moral welfare. The campaign, supported by Herbert Hoover both before and during his presidency, sought to accomplish two main goals: to produce productive and predictable subjectivities in children along class, racial and gendered lines; and to use scientific management principles to make housework more efficient. These correspond to Marxian accounts of the indispensable requirements of capitalist reproduction to be found in the work of Louis Althusser and Rosa Luxemburg, who showed, respectively, that society must reproduce capitalist relations of production through ideology, and that accumulation is only possible when there is an exterior source of value to be pulled from the productive output of non-capitalist modes of production. The family, operating according to the specifications of the Better Homes campaign, met both requirements by operating as a site of moral/subject-forming/educational child rearing, and through home economics- produced efficiency in housework. However, if these theoretical accounts offer an explanation of what the imperatives of accumulation were, they fail to describe historically how these imperatives would play out. This chapter examines the interaction between the why and the how as these played out in the Better Homes in America campaign.
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I review Gilles Deleuze's book "Foucault".
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Historiographical scholarship about the London Gay Liberation Front (GLF) in the early 1970s. Pre... more Historiographical scholarship about the London Gay Liberation Front (GLF) in the early 1970s. Presented as MPhil dissertation in the Master of Architecture and Urban Studies program at the University of Cambridge in 2018.
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