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# PALESTINE /// Law as a Military Weapon: “Knock on Roof” Tactic and Other Disingenuous Arguments

In the continuity of the last article about the current Israeli dreadful siege on Gaza, this text will try to examine the way the Israeli army adopts legal tactics that supplies its supporters — how else calling these people who go out at night and sit on Sderot hills to watch the ‘show’ of the IDF...
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STUART ELDEN /// Thinking the Volume: Subterranean, Atmospheric and Oblique Territories

THINKING THE VOLUME: SUBTERRANEAN, ATMOSPHERIC AND OBLIQUE TERRITORIES Conversation recorded with Stuart Elden in New York on May 21, 2014 For many years, Stuart Elden has thoroughly examined the concept of territory. In order to enter into this quasi-exhaustive research, I invited him to talk about the idea of volumetric territory, both in general and...
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# WEAPONIZED ARCHITECTURE /// Temple Grandin’s Humane Slaughterhouses and the Architectural Politics of the Lesser Evil

Dr. Temple Grandin is a professor at Colorado State University who wrote several books about autism and animal science. Her autism allowed her to a detailed perception of the animal behavior and the factors that influence it. Grandin’s architectural inventions were created in reaction to particularly brutal and insensitive means of bringing the cattle to...
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# WEAPONIZED ARCHITECTURE /// Each City Has the Potential to Become a Battlefield

Rarely an image would have known how to express the potential for a city to become a battlefield than this photomontage of Kiev’s Maidan Square before and after its occupation started (see below for a zoomable version). Similar photographs have emerged to show the extents of the tragic damages produced by the current civil war...
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# THE FUNAMBULIST PAPERS 47 /// Nazi Architecture as Affective Weapon by Gastón Gordillo

Today’s guest writer is Gastón Gordillo, professor in anthropology at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, to whom we owe the great work on Space and Politics, as well as a forthcoming book, Rubble (Duke University Press, 2014) about the narrative power contained in the figure of the ruin. In the following text, entitled “Nazi Architecture...
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# THE FUNAMBULIST PAMPHLETS /// Volume 06: Palestine Now Published

The sixth volume of The Funambulist Pamphlets that gathers and edits past articles (as well as additional photographs) of the blog about Palestine, is now officially published by Punctum Books in collaboration with the Center for Transformative Media at Parsons The New School. You can either download the book as a PDF for free or order it online for the price...
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# WEAPONIZED ARCHITECTURE /// The Architectural Drawings as Military and Judiciary Documents

Former American Embassy of Karachi by Richard Neutra & Robert Alexander It happens rather often that architecture offices have to hold on their documents and drawings for a while as the client (often public in this case) does not want them to be spread around at this specific moment. It is rarer that architectural drawings...
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# PHILOSOPHY /// “The Body of the Prey is the Battlefield”: Grégoire Chamayou and the Drone Theory

Still of the video What the Drone Saw by artist Omer Fast, a former U.S. Army drone operator / Source: The Guardian This article is the first one but very unlikely to be the last one about Grégoire Chamayou‘s Drone Theory. The latter is the name of a book (Théorie du drone) that has not...
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# WEAPONIZED ARCHITECTURE /// Designing Volumes of Energy: A Materialist Reading of the Explosion

Destruction of the Glencairn Tower in Motherwell (near Glasgow) / Photograph by Sam Hardie Explosions are so ubiquitous in Hollywood Cinema, and the emotion is so intense when one torn-down reality that we do not quite seem to realize what they really are. In 2007, Mike Davis was trying to historicize the car bomb and...
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