Ivan L. Munuera
Demerol City: Embodying Michael Jackson Architecturally
Folio: Journal of African Architecture
Eds. Mark Olweny, Iain Low, Caroline Wanjiku Kihato, Lesley Lokko, Vol. 2. 2020
From Inner City to Instagram City.
Michael Jackson was more than a human being; he was a transhuman urbanism. He was trans in the way he crossed disciplinary, cultural, and art versus life boundaries.The constructions and discussions around his public and private figure were (and still are) beyond the human being. There was a body, but it was self-contained. It ramified to massively reconstruct distant fellow humans. The expansion of his corporeality made him queer, it contained the building blocks for different social constructions and architectures.