Bøger af Eyal Weizman

I Retsteknisk arkitektur tager Eyal Weizman læserne fra droneangreb i Afghanistan til interneringslejre i Syrien og fra bombeattentater i Gaza til bjergene i Guatemala. Med detaljeret dokumentation præsenterer bogen en æstetisk og visuelt udfordrende undersøgelsespraksis, der intervenerer direkte i virkeligheden. Eyal Weizmans forskningsgruppe Forensic Architecture arbejder for at stille de ansvarlige for menneskerettighedsbrud til regnskab. Ved virtuelt at rekonstruere gerningssteder, bombede bygninger og udpinte landskaber skaber gruppen rammerne for nye erkendelser og vidnesbyrd.Eyal Weizman (f. 1970) er britisk-israelsk arkitekt og professor ved Goldsmiths, University of London. Forensic Architecture har bidraget med bevismaterialer til bl.a. Amnesty International og Human Rights Watch og udstillet sine modeller og efterforskninger på Tate Britain, Louisiana, og documenta.Bibliotek for ny kunstteori er en række oversættelser af international kunst- og kulturteori. Projektet er et samarbejde mellem Ny Carlsbergfondet og Informations Forlag.

One common feature of the wave of recent revolutions and revolts around the world is not political but rather architectural: many erupted on inner-city roundabouts. In thinking about the relation between protest and urban form, Eyal Weizman starts with the May 1980 uprising in Gwangju, South Korea, the first of the "roundabout revolutions," and traces its lineage to the Arab Spring and its hellish aftermath.Rereading the history of the roundabout through the vortices of history that traverse it, the book follows the development of the roundabout in Europe and North America in the early twentieth century, to its subsequent export to the colonial world in the context of attempts to discipline and police the "chaotic" non-Western city. How did an urban apparatus put in the service of authoritarian power became the locus of its undoing? Today, as the tide of revolt that characterized the Arab Spring seems to ebb, when nations and societies disintegrate by brutal civil wars and military oppression, the series of revolutions might seem like Dante's circles of hell. To counter this counter-revolution, Weizman proposes that the immanent power of the people at the roundabouts will need to find its corollary in sustained work at round tables--the ongoing formation of political movements able to enact political change. The sixth volume of the Critical Spatial Practice series stems from Eyal Weizman's contribution to the Gwangju Folly II in 2013, an exhibition curated by Nikolaus Hirsch with Philipp Misselwitz and Eui Young Chun for the Gwangju Biennale. Weizman and the architect Samaneh Moafi constructed a folly composed of seven roundabouts and a round table in front of the Gwangju train station, one of the central points in the events of May 1980.Critical Spatial Practice 6With Blake Fisher and Samaneh MoafiEdited by Nikolaus Hirsch, Markus MiessenFeaturing photography by Kyungsub Shin

British photographer Edmund Clark and counterterrorism investigator Crofton Black have assembled photographs and documents that confront the nature of contemporary warfare and the invisible mechanisms of state control.

Images of Conviction shows, through 11 cases, how the photographic image is constructed to become evidence.From the scientific methods developed by Alphonse Bertillon, a criminologist who worked for the Préfecture de Police de Paris in the late 19th century, to the first aerial images of the front taken by the army during World War I, to the shots allowing the victims of Stalin's Great Purge to be identified--for over 150 years photography has served as proof, testifying to crime and thus seeming to deliver truths. In the 11 cases presented here, each one situated within its historical and political context, the question of the status of images is acutely posed. Whether it be the famous shots of the Shroud of Turin, the images of the Nuremberg trial, the skull of Josef Mengele or photos taken with cell phones recording the damage of drone strikes in Afghanistan and Israel, forensic images are now part of any police or political investigation.