5 documents
Confinement
The Architecture of Memory
Eyal Weizman
Architecture Essay
Posted: November 7, 2020
Category
Architecture, Interviews & Conversations
Subjects
Memory, Trauma, Representation
Becoming Digital
Open Verification
Eyal Weizman
Architecture Essay
Posted: June 18, 2019
Category
Data & Information, Technology
Subjects
State & Government, Violence, Knowledge Production
Superhumanity
Are They Human?
Eyal Weizman
Architecture Essay
Posted: October 10, 2016
Category
Humanism, Human and Civil Rights, Colonialism & Imperialism, Nature & Ecology
Subjects
Animals, Human - Nonhuman Relations, Anthropocene, Climate change
# 64
Violence at the Threshold of Detectability
Eyal Weizman
Negative Positivism
The new millennium began with a bizarre legal battle. The David Irving trial, which unfolded at the English High Court of Justice between January and April 2000, involved one of the most aggressive cross-examinations of architectural evidence—drawings, models, aerial and ground-level photographs—ever undertaken in a legal context. The case unfolded around a libel suit filed by David Irving against an American writer and her publisher, Penguin Books, for calling him…
e-flux Journal
Posted: April 1, 2015
Category
Architecture, Film, War & Conflict, Image
Subjects
Historicity & Historiography, Drones, Law & Justice
# 38
665: The Least of All Possible Evils
Eyal Weizman
The preemptive logic of the “lesser evil” is often invoked to justify the use of a lesser violence to prevent a supposedly greater, projected one. The argument conjures a cold calculus of differentials, one in which good and evil are seen as commodities that are exchanged, transferred, speculated upon and in constant circulation. But, as in our contemporary financial economy, the Leibnitzian theodicy of “the best of all possible worlds” is in crisis, and out of its ruins emerges its…
e-flux Journal
Posted: October 1, 2012
Category
War & Conflict
Subjects
Law & Justice, Terrorism, Refugees