Summary
Editor of The Funambulist Pamphlets, Volume 06: Palestine (2013) and author of Weaponized Architecture: The Impossibility of Innocence (2012), who argues architecture is inherently political and can be weaponized, and who photographed Israeli settlements and colonial apparatuses in the West Bank and East Jerusalem in July 2010 (The Funambulist Pamphlets, Volume 06: Palestine, PDF p.4, 17).
Details
- His recurrent argument is that spectacular events sustain the status quo, while systematic examination of Israel’s colonial strategy — a cartography of its politics of space — can inform its deactivation (PDF p.8).
- He designed a disobedient Area C project, the “Qasr” — tents over a concrete agricultural platform over an underground dwelling near Salfit and Ariel — designed to survive as a ruin (PDF p.92-95).
- He met Raja Shehadeh in Ramallah in July 2010 to interview him on law as resistance (PDF p.79, 96).
- He sees his book itself as a weapon, “no more powerful than the small hand catapults” Palestinians use against IDF tanks, but a refusal to submit (PDF p.97).
Related pages
The Funambulist Pamphlets, Volume 06: Palestine, Weaponized Architecture, Disobedient Architecture, Palestinian Archipelago, Raja Shehadeh