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# TOPIE IMPITOYABLE /// The Body at War: Corporeal Resistance and Torture in...
Still from Hunger (2008) by Steve McQueen In 1976, the British government withdrew the status of political prisoner to every detainees who had been imprisoned for having taken part in the Northern...
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# ARCHIPELAGO 40 /// Making Films, Making Myths with Camille Lacadée
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# ARCHIPELAGO 41 /// Thinking the Volume: Subterranean, Atmospheric and...
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# POLITICS /// Sonic Weapons: Designing Waves of Matter
Panzer by Nik Nowak (2011) This article is relatively premature as I will soon read Steve Goodman’s Sonic Warfare: Sound, Affect, and the Ecology of Fear (MIT Press, 2012), as well as Hillel Schwartz’s...
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# ARCHIPELAGO 42 /// Gendered Violence in Bathrooms, Streets, and Prisons...
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# HISTORY /// Atmopolitics: Sloterdijk and the “Being-in-the-Breathable”
French soldier in 1916 / Bibliothèque Nationale de France The following article is based on the reading of Peter Sloterdijk‘s Terror from the Air (Semiotext(e), 2007), as well as the inspiration...
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# WEAPONIZED ARCHITECTURE /// The Spikes Are Not the Problem, Homelessness Is
There has been a recent outcry on the Internet after the wide spreading of a series of photographs showing metallic/concrete spikes on stone thresholds, planters and other surfaces that could...
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# ARCHIPELAGO 43 /// Documenting the Undocumented: Carceral Architecture and...
Excerpt of the forthcoming book Undocumented: The Architecture of Migrant Detention by Tings Chak (2014) The last podcast published on Archipelago is a conversation with Tings Chak, Toronto-based...
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# CINEMA /// Banlieues and Police: La Haine’s Famous Tracking Shot
Still from La Haine by Mathieu Kassovitz (1995) If, like me, you were a French teenager in the 1990s, you probably have a powerful remembrance of Mathieu Kasovitz’s La Haine (1995), in particular of...
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# LAW /// Enforcing “Safe Space” Through Architecture: Abortion Clinics’...
Yesterday, June 26, 2014, the American Supreme Court ruled that the Massachusetts legislation that used to enforce a 35-feet (barely 11 meters) buffer zone in front of abortion clinics was...
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# MAPS /// The Mediterranean Abyss: South Wall of Fortress Europe and...
Méditerranée sans frontières (Borderless Mediterranean Sea) by Sabine Réthoré (2013) /// found on Plateforme Art & Géo de Cartes Sensibles) The map presented above is an artwork by Sabine...
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# PALESTINE /// Punitive Home Demolition Is an Act of War: Collectivization...
Palestinian home destruction in East Jerusalem (January 2014) / Photograph by Tali Mayer/Activestills.org As I have been writing in the past, I try to refrain myself from writing about the phenomenal...
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# WEAPONIZED ARCHITECTURE /// The Banlieue Archipelago: Cartographic...
Maps created for the purpose of this article / Download them here in high resolution (6.6 MB) (license: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommerical-ShareAlike 4.0) As I recently wrote in an article...
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# PALESTINE /// Infrastructural and Militarized Cartography of Gaza
Map created by Léopold Lambert for The Funambulist (July 10, 2014) / Download a high-quality version of the map here (5MB) (license: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommerical-ShareAlike 4.0) As the...
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# PALESTINE /// Law as a Military Weapon: “Knock on Roof” Tactic and Other...
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...
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# PALESTINE /// Sirens in the “Villa Surrounded by the Jungle”: Manufacturing...
Tel Aviv inhabitants evacuating beaches and shopping malls during siren alerts. Writing seems to be the only thing that does not make me feel completely powerless in front of the horror of the on-going...
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# ARCHIPELAGO 34 /// A Weaponized Urbanity with Demilit: Synthesis in DAMn 45
Article written for DAMn Magazine 45 about the 34th Archipelago conversation with Demilit /// On May 2, 2014, I took a walk in downtown Oakland with the three members of Demilit, Bryan Finoki, Nick...
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# PALESTINE /// Invasion of Gaza: Architecture’s Violence at Work
Erez Crossing: one of the only land access to Gaza While I am writing these words, the Israeli army is starting its land invasion of the Gaza strip, thus providing the conditions for the continuation...
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# PALESTINE /// What Is a Home?
On July 13, 2014, Palestinian Gaza-based journalist Mohammed Omer wrote the following tweet: “Most difficult moment for a father: split his children in all corners of the house or all in one corner and...
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# ARCHIPELAGO 45 /// Five Articles About Gaza on The Funambulist (Audio Version)
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