DATA COLLECTION, BLACKNESS AND THE ALMIGHTY DOLLAR

Architecture Elective,
Faculty: Mark Foster Gage
2020

These hierarchical stances assumed through language, words like “global”, “advancement”, “development”, “civilized”, “tribe”, “urban”, reinforce a racially biased hierarchy without effectively communicating the location, status, ethnicity, region or socioeconomics conditions of the desired group of people. In the avoidance of titles, politics or religious affiliations, we fall under the mass societal faith of the City- State: the Almighty Dollar. We pray and give offerings to false idols of the monopolistic pantheon: Google, the NSA, Social Media Organizations, Fast Food chains, Children's media. The goal is to call attention to the parallels one can draw between Home, State and Church, between Afrocentric and Eurocentric worlds and forms of Globalization- parasite or advancement?

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