#utopian

[escuerzoresucitado]

tag yourself

[whereserpentswalk]

There were a lot of questions about what to do with prisons and jails after they were abolished. The last time an American prison to be used for its original purpose was in 2101, when old regime members were held in a Virginia prison after being taken by revolutionary forces in Washington DC. Most were shut down far before that.

At first a lot of them just lay empty. The decades after the revolution were ones of rapid urbanization, and not many people cared about the rural prisons being left behind. A few notable were made into meusums, most famously rikers island, which serves as a meusum dedicated to showing what the US Prison system was like when it existed. It's an especially important task to take up as the last generation to be alive when that system actually existed is close to dying off; people who were teenagers when the last prisons and jails were liberated are now in their 120s and 130s, a few have become virtually immortal cyborgs, but because most people still choose to keep their humanity the majority of them will die off.

But the thing is you can't turn every prison into a place meant to educate about the prison system, too many were built, there's not enough historians dedicated to that part of history to maintain so many. Practically most buildings that were once prisons and jails have to be used for other things. And it becomes a problem, because there are very few things people want to use a prison for. Other buildings that used to be used for now dead institutions, such as city halls, courthouses, or churches, were expansive and pretty enough so that they became prime real-estate for housing or community centers or temples or countless other things. But there aren't many uses for a former prison, by their nature they're unpleasant to exist in, they don't make good apartments, or good schools, or good work spaces, or good anything really.

Some people just want to rip former prisons down and build something new in their place. And some communities have done that. They view them as a bad memory from a long dead regime that's best left forgotten. But a lot of other people want to keep them, not just because it's important to remember the collective trauma they embody, but because it seems wrong to waste resources on buildings that can be reclaimed. However, even if you put the work into making a former prison somewhere that's comfortable to live or to work (which takes more time or effort then most people going into prison reclination projects seem to think), people will just refuse to live and work in what they know is a former prison. Even without practical reason people don't want to be somewhere where they know such a horrifying history happened. It's why a lot of former prisons have become server farms or ftl bases, because its easier to turn them into places that have a lot of space but not a lot of workers.

So a lot of communities in the former united states just have abandoned prisons and jails. If you grew up near one you certainly remember teenagers sneaking out to visit them, and hearing scary stories of ghosts in abandoned prisons, or the spirits of the prisons still hungering for humans to enslave. There's a reason why so many horror movies use them as settings, it's like they're physical manifestations of the trauma from capitalism that a lot of people want to put behind us, but that we shouldn't be so quick to forget or ignore.

[rain-rainynights]

neon blues florescent streets electronic jazz fills my head- what a utopian feat i subject myself to

[catgirldomesticationguide]

one day everyone will be a trans girl

[egosumrexgloriae]

Dreams Beneath the Dome

[hidelifetime]

Hellloo!!

I’m going to book-shopping later, recommend some books I read almost everything and willing to try new genres,

Help a girl out 🎀🌐

Edited: Thank you all so much!! I look forward to find some of those books!! And I’m Adding everything to my tbr 🥰

[orbitaltheatre]

Domobiles - a sculptural architectural project by Swiss architect Pascal Häusermann designed between 1971 and 1973

These structures represent a futuristic, modular approach to living, designed to be movable and adaptable. The designs feature white, spherical, and organic shapes, characteristic of 1960s and 70s space-age design