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An edition of Forensic architecture (2017)

Forensic architecture

violence at the threshold of detectability

  • 3 Want to read

In recent years, the group Forensic Architecture began using novel research methods to undertake a series of investigations into human rights abuses. Today, the group provides crucial evidence for international courts and works with a wide range of activist groups, NGOs, Amnesty International, and the UN. Forensic Architecture has not only shed new light on human rights violations and state crimes across the globe, but has also created a new form of investigative practice that bears its name. The group uses architecture as an optical device to investigate armed conflicts and environmental destruction, as well as to cross-reference a variety of evidence sources, such as new media, remote sensing, material analysis, witness testimony, and crowd-sourcing. In Forensic Architecture, Eyal Weizman, the group's founder, provides, for the first time, an in-depth introduction to the history, practice, assumptions, potentials, and double binds of this practice. The book includes an extensive array of images, maps, and detailed documentation that records the intricate work the group has performed. Traversing multiple scales and durations, the case studies in this volume include the analysis of the shrapnel fragments in a room struck by drones in Pakistan, the reconstruction of a contested shooting in the West Bank, the architectural recreation of a secret Syrian detention center from the memory of its survivors, a blow-by-blow account of a day-long battle in Gaza, and an investigation of environmental violence and climate change in the Guatemalan highlands and elsewhere. Weizman's Forensic Architecture, stunning and shocking in its critical narrative, powerful images, and daring investigations, presents a new form of public truth, technologically, architecturally, and aesthetically produced. The practice calls for a transformative politics in which architecture as a field of knowledge and a mode of interpretation exposes and confronts ever-new forms of state violence and secrecy --

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Zone Books
Language
English
Pages
355

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Cover of: Forensic Architecture
Forensic Architecture: Violence at the Threshold of Detectability
2019, Zone Books
in English
Cover of: Forensic Architecture
Forensic Architecture: Violence at the Threshold of Detectability
2017, Zone Books
in English
Cover of: Forensic Architecture
Forensic Architecture: Violence at the Threshold of Detectability
2017, Zone Books
in English
Cover of: Forensic Architecture
Forensic Architecture: Violence at the Threshold of Detectability
2017, Zone Books
in English
Cover of: Forensic architecture
Forensic architecture: violence at the threshold of detectability
2017, Zone Books
in English

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Table of Contents

Preface
Introduction: At the threshold of detectability
What is forensic architecture?
Counterforensics in Palestine : The forensic dilemma ; The Nakba Day killing ; Hannibal in Rafah
Ground truths.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
614/.17
Library of Congress
GN69.8 .W45 2017, GN69.8.W45 2017

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355 pages :
Number of pages
355

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL26641600M
ISBN 10
1935408860
ISBN 13
9781935408864
LCCN
2016050515
OCLC/WorldCat
958796620

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