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EYAL WEIZMAN /// Forensic Investigations of Designed Destructions in Gaza

This conversation with Eyal Weizman was recorded in February 2017 in order to be featured as a main component of the 12th issue of The Funambulist Magazine, entitled “Designed Destructions.” In it we address both descriptively and analytically the work of Forensic Architecture, a research agency at Goldsmiths, University of London, that he founded and directs,...

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Eyal Weizman

Eyal Weizman is an architect, Professor of Spatial and Visual Cultures, and Director of the Centre for Research Architecture at Goldsmiths, University of London. He is a founding member of the architectural collective DAAR in Beit Sahour/Palestine. His books include Mengele’s Skull (with Thomas Keenan at Sterenberg Press, 2012), Forensic Architecture (dOCUMENTA13 notebook, 2012), The...

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# WEAPONIZED ARCHITECTURE /// The Insurgent and the Technocrat: A Review of Eyal Weizman’s Roundabout Revolutions

Léopold Lambert – Paris on July 8, 2015 If you enjoy articles of the blog, have a look at The Funambulist Magazine! Place de l’Etoile Rouge in Cotonou (Benin) After spatial thinkers like Keller Easterling, Beatriz Colomina or Chantal Mouffe, the Critical Spatial Practice series edited by Nikolaus Hirsch and Markus Miessen now publishes a short...

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# ARCHITECTURAL THEORIES /// Forensic Architecture by Eyal Weizman

The lecture Eyal Weizman has been giving for Saskia Sassen’s symposium in Columbia in 2009, Cities and the New Wars and in Battir (Palestine) for Decolonizing Architecture in July 2010 is available to see on the website of the AA. The lecture is called Forensic Architecture and I have referred to it in my essay...

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# POLITICS /// The policies of the “lesser evil” as approached by Eyal Weizman

As I wrote in a recent article, I might write several articles in a near future about the brilliant book The Power of Inclusive Exclusion (see previous article) about the structure of the Israeli occupation of the Palestinian territories. The following text is an excerpt of the chapter wrote by Eyal Weizman, entitled Thanato-tactics that...

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Apartheid “Everynight” and the Politics of Lighting in Cape Town’s Townships

A CONVERSATION WITH STEPHANIE BRIERS One of the ways the South African Apartheid manifested was in the imposition of its time on Indigenous people, in particular the quotidian alternance between day and night lives. In Infrastructures of Freedom: Public Light and Everynight Life on a Southern City’s Margins (2023), Stephanie Briers examines that time of...

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Bulldozer Politics: Introduction

Please note that this text was published in 2016, with a focus on the systematic use of the bulldozer by the Israeli state to destroy Palestinian homes since 1948. For this issue, the text has been slightly revised but the scale and the intensity of the genocidal violence against Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank...

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Architecture of Sanitized Fictions

Last year, Art Deco Mumbai and Bauhaus Center Tel Aviv co-hosted an exhibition, Mumbai–Tel Aviv: Architecture Moderne that first opened in June 2022, at Sir JJ College of Architecture, Mumbai and in November 2022, reached Bauhaus Center Tel Aviv. Celebrating the 1930s Modernist architectural styles of Art Deco and Bauhaus, this event was jointly organized...

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Before and After the Leaves: A Brief Material History of the Herbicide Glyphosate in the Forest

Starting from image analysis and the “before” and “after” diptych, Hannah Meszaros Martin provides us with a political understanding of the military use of glyphosate against various forests of the world. She turns in particular to the chemical “act of killing” against coca plants in the context of the so-called “War on drugs” in Colombia...

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