Not sure if this is within the scope of this series, but these pieces highlight how the creation of land as a financial asset basically captured any capacity for the rights of citizens to be evenly implemented, and in turn, foreclosed any possibility of egalitarian democracy (or even just a good life). In other words, if the land that carries people is captured up in speculative markets then their right to place has been extinguished and replaced with the ever present spectre of precarious land relations. Everyone and everywhere become open to displacement, dispossession, and degradation as long as we understand land as a financial asset.
Not sure if this is within the scope of this series, but these pieces highlight how the creation of land as a financial asset basically captured any capacity for the rights of citizens to be evenly implemented, and in turn, foreclosed any possibility of egalitarian democracy (or even just a good life). In other words, if the land that carries people is captured up in speculative markets then their right to place has been extinguished and replaced with the ever present spectre of precarious land relations. Everyone and everywhere become open to displacement, dispossession, and degradation as long as we understand land as a financial asset.