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picture: Joe Sacco. The Fixer. London: Drawn and Quarterly 2003 In 2009, Saskia Sassen was organizing a symposium at Columbia University entitled, Cities and the New Wars (see previous article) that was gathering intellectuals such as Stephen Graham or Eyal Weizman who presented brilliant lectures about how cities are affected by urban combat. Cities are...

Living Pod by David Greene (Archigram) in 1966 It has been a long time that I wanted to write a post about the short story The Thousand Dreams of Stellavista in the book Vermilion Sands written by James Graham Ballard between 1956 and 1970 (and published in 1971). In fact, this story introduces a very...

Within the frame of my post-professional thesis, Weaponized Architecture, Bryan Finoki was kind enough to answer my questions. Bryan is the editor of Subtopia, one of the most important and crucial research platform about militarized spaces and their biopolitical implications. Bryan Finoki’s work is an excavation of the politics of space that underwrite the nature...

Thanks to Romaric, my friend who works at French publisher Galaade, I had the chance to meet Raja Shehadeh for an interview he kindly accepted. Raja is a lawyer in Ramallah since the end of the 70’s and has dedicated his carrier to cases of expropriation of Palestinian lands by the Israeli. He wrote several...

picture: Ma’ale Adummim (East Jerusalem’s region) ـJewish settlements within the West Bank are violating the article 49 of the Geneva Convention (see previous article). However, thinking that they simply occupy a land they do not own would be observing them in a very superficial way. In fact, they constitute a very important weapon in the...

map coming from bbc.co.uk At the time I am writing this article the West Bank is still sealed by the Israeli army as a “prevention measure”. Many defenders of the Israeli Government action claim it as legitimate defense which is already a farce when you observe the total asymmetry between the two opponents; however here,...

picture: Gaza after the 2008 Israeli Siege. Getty Images This article is one of the chapters of the book Weaponized Architecture: The Impossibility of Innocence (dpr-barcelona, 2012) Despite of the fact that the following strategy has been regularly occurring in history, the notion of urbicide has been formulated by the former Mayor of Belgrade, Bogdan...

Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari titled A Thousand Plateaus in reference to the way it should be read: one plateau after another, no matter in which order. This section focuses on three of the fourteen chapters composing that book; they are entitled: 227: Treatise on Nomadology; The War Machine 7000 B.C.: Apparatus of Capture 1440:...

The battle of Algiers dramatizes the urban battle (1954-1960) that happened between the FLN (National Front for the Liberation) and the French paratroopers force aiming towards the decolonization of Algeria in 1962. This movie, directed by Gille Pontecorvo, was released in 1966 and was banned for five years in France. Just like in Pepe le...