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Similarly to many anti-colonial struggles, Kashmiri activists can count on a acute knowledge of their spatial environment to cope with the asymmetric dimension that characterizes their confrontations with the Indian occupation police and military. Mohamad Junaid helps us understand how. In 1992, Indian soldiers stationed inside a bunker in my hometown in Kashmir shot dead...

History and Statecraft /// Diego Garcia, an island of the Chagos Archipelago, is a thin, V-shaped coral atoll 25 km long and 5 km wide in the middle of the Indian Ocean. The island itself has a surface area of 30 square kilometers and encloses a large lagoon of 125 square kilometers wide. Diego Garcia...

This conversation is an introduction to the research conducted by Greg Barton for his thesis at CCCP (Critical, Curatorial & Conceptual Practices) at Columbia University. This research is essentially focused on Diego Garcia island situated in the middle of the Indian Ocean, a territory that was never decolonized and remains under British sovereignty. The island hosts...

Daniel and I had this conversation the day after the 2013 Goldsmiths Graduate Conference, where we were both participating in a panel suitably entitled “The Sea, Shores, Islands – Territory, Sovereignty and the State.” His paper “The Construction of the End,” given that day is the starting point of our discussion, in which we discuss the...

Exceptions to Environmentalism: Industrial Harbour Avilés Our friend from Deconcrete, Daniel Fernández Pascual wrote this week’s guest writer essay in which he questions the idea of sovereignty on territories that remain legally blurry. Indeed, the paradigm of the two-dimensional map cannot be enough anymore to describe lands (sky, underground, space, other planets etc.) whose sovereignty...

October will be a rich month of symposiums at Columbia University. In fact, on October 3rd, the French House in collaboration with GSAPP is organizing a panel entitled When is Utopia? with Jean-Louis Cohen, Sylvère Lotringer, Jean-Louis Violeau, Craig Buckley and Hubert Tonka. About two weeks later, on October 14th and 15th, Columbia will host...

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...

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...