Instituting Worlds

Catharina Gabrielsson is Docent in Architecture and Associate Professor in Urban Theory and Design at the School of Architecture KTH, Stockholm. Her research centres on the relationship between architecture, art, and urban development, combining critical historiography with philosophy and artistic research. She is co-editor of Neoliberalism on the Ground: Architecture and Transformation from the 1960s to the Present (2020), Architecture and Feminisms: Ecologies, Economies, Technologies (2017), and Deleuze and the City (2016).Marko Jobst is Senior Lecturer at Leeds School of Architecture. He is the author of A Ficto-Historical Theory of the London Underground (2017) and co-editor of Architectural Affects After Deleuze and Guattari with Hélène Frichot (2021) and Queering Architecture: Methods, Practices, Spaces, Pedagogies with Naomi Stead (2023). His research interests include the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze, affect and queer theories, and experimental modes of writing.

• Introduction1. Friday I’m in Love2. Ghost Islands: Telling an Intertidal Coast3. Big House, Small State: Taiwan’s Architecture of Island Precarity4. Of Land and Sea: Reclamation Infrastructures in Mumbai5. Aluminum Architecture from the Caribbean6. Latent Histories of Manus Island7. Islands of Carcerality: Fluid exceptionality within Australia’s detention archipelago8. What sticks: The Ambiguous Carcerality of Asinara9. Contact Zones: Walking Robben Island10. This Island Life: Provision Plots of the Plantationocene11. Out of Time: Lake Constant and its Island12. Extraterritoriality and the impact of tourism development in eastern Indonesia.13. Escape, Exile, Architecture: Confining Yassıada14. Fictioning Great War Island15. Flotsam: Retelling the story16. Scraps from the Wreckage: Remnants of Hashima Island17. “Insular time, and ‘something most profound’”