1st Edition

Looking Beyond Borderlines North America's Frontier Imagination

By Lee Rodney Copyright 2017
224 Pages
by Routledge

224 Pages 34 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

224 Pages 34 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

American territorial borders have undergone significant and unparalleled changes in the last decade. They serve as a powerful and emotionally charged locus for American national identity that correlates with the historical idea of the frontier. But the concept of the frontier, so central to American identity throughout modern history, has all but disappeared in contemporary... Read more

Introduction: Sight and Site on the Line





Part I: The Territorial Imagination





1. Framing the Frontier: From Survey to Surveillance



2. Homeland as Home Front: Terror, Territory and Television





Part II: Mobile Frontiers





3. Exhibiting the Frontier: Thresholds and Checkpoints as Museological Projects



4. Canada as the Borderline Case: ‘Outer America’ and the Northern Frontier





Part III: Modalities of Dissensus





5. Psychogeography after NAFTA



6. Sites of Dissensus: Aesthetics after the Border



7. Have you left the American Sector? Detroit’s Borderama Spectacle

Biography

Lee Rodney is Associate Professor of Media Art Histories and Visual Culture at the University of Windsor where she is currently Co-Director of the InTerminus Research Group. An interdisciplinary writer/curator, she has published on contemporary art, visual culture and urbanism in a range of books and publications including The Informal Market Worlds Atlas, Cartographies of Place, Future Anterior, Space and Culture, Parallax, Prefix Photo and PAJ: Performance Art Journal. Recent curatorial projects include the Border Bookmobile and the Frontier Files (frontierfiles.org).