The State of Speculation

Abstract

Today’s land grabs are a continuation of past imperialist desires, with a clear distinction that today’s capitalist domination is associated with the transnationalisation of the class structure and ignores the ethnicity and civility narratives of the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries. This investigation will establish that the desire of the seemingly ubiquitous forces of globalisation and advanced capitalism, mobilised to reduce the importance of culture and identity is to better facilitate its own growth and expansion - which at its core is a process of pacification. With a departure from culture as a medium for the subjugation of people, finance has consequently turned to class for its apparent objectivity in the assessment of people as desirable and efficient for including within the system of capital. Such pervasive coercion has incepted a dependency on the compulsion of a market that rarely provides one with an opportunity to self-reflect. Consequently this project investigates the knowledge gap between politics, economics, and the built environment with accompanying forms of living.