Notes Prepping for Meeting with TH on 10_05_07

For the purposes of summarizing where I stand today, it would be best to first begin with a list. This list is a breakdown of ideas. These ideas are all interrelated somehow.

1. State of Exception
   
1. Agamben
2. History in relation to democracy
3. History in relation to the 2 world wars
4. Power and lacunas
   
2. Power and Architecture (The TVA)
1. The TVA as an architectural example of state of exception (not technically, I think, but we are getting there)
2. The state of exception placing specific demands on architecture
   
3. The TVA as infrastructure
4. The TVA in relation to Corb
5. The TVA in relation to modernism
6. Utopian projects, infrastructure, and power relations
3. Disciplinarity, Agency, and Power
   
4. Contemporary issues of power
1. States of exception as legal lacunas
2. Other types of legal lacunas
3. Architecture as relating to defunct powers
   
4. Specific, interesting lacunas
5. Operators within these lacunas
6. Easterling, Counterinsurgency
   
5. My thesis is (a nice closed loop...):
1. Restoring agency to architecture
2. Agency through large-scale speculation
3. Realistic speculation through real relationships with power
4. Political action through realistic power
5. Meaningful architecture through politics
   

And dont forget Kant and public works...and Deleuze...

- 4 types: executive (government), military (increasingly anti-terro, counterinsurgent), corporate (multinational, nomadic), informal (lawless)
- need a technique/set of issues/goal of presentation to approach these studies and organize them....what am I trying to learn from them.
- today, my thesis is about combining the refugee problem with the abandon ftz/shipping zone

Ok, so the first big problem for me is to how to arrange/choose/get into these dossiers/case studies. What to have in 3 weeks...