‘British-induced uprootings – the emigration from India, the three million African slaves transported on British ships across the Atlantic, the millions who left Ireland after the 1840s Famine – permanently changed the world’s human geography.’

On empire: lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v46/…

This is what academia in action should look like - not just the weak power of critique, but material and informational solidarity. eyal weizman and the rest shows this is possible even as Goldsmiths itself commits self-inflicted academic suicide.

Was just reading this myself (must’ve been uploaded today, as I was on the site re-reading last night and didn’t see the docs).

Israel’s response expectedly fell short, and SA’s team is basically a machine — they even referenced Forensic Architecture’s report on Al-Mawasi.

Last month I spoke to artist and 'private ear' #LawrenceAbuHamdan for the cover of GQ Middle East re: Yorkshire's y2k noise scene, the amazing research at Forensic Architecture, and Hamdan's new nonprofit earshot.ngo. Check out the Ed Note from ahmad swaid here gqmiddleeast.com/features/edito…

After three months, the Policing Justice exhibit closed today. Thank you, Portland Institute of Contemporary Art, Forensic Architecture Robert Mackey and all others who worked so hard to turn this space into a voice for victims and survivors. Thank you, everyone who came. We love you.

When I look at the world around me, I find myself returning to this quote, again and again.

International lawyers are now writing long and exacting treatments of the genocide charge re #Gaza . The first in a Journal of Genocide Research series by Maryam Jamshidi (msjamshidi.bsky.social) has dropped. Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt Itamar Mann Samuel Moyn 🔭 Noura Erakat

Extraordinary essay by Eyal Weizman Forensic Architecture - on the links between genocide in #Gaza & German colonial genocide in South-West Africa; on 'what it means to speak truth to repressive powers, and what are the consequences of such acts'.
Must-read:
lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v46/…

This remarkable essay by Eyal Weizman of Forensic Architecture, links a too-little known history with the hottest contemporary genocide before which the polities of The West together remains too frozen to rise up and act. Diary lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v46/…

first they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they arrest you, then they erect a plaque commemorating your struggle

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A copy of my out of print book with Fazal Sheikh, The Conflict Shoreline, published by Steidl and Cabinet Books is now online.

‘The government’s nationalisation of memory meant that the “Ovaherero and Nama genocide” became known anachronistically as the “Namibian genocide”.’

eyal weizman reports from Namibia: lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v46/…

'In this context it’s inspiring that the Nama and Ovaherero groups decided to respond to the political atmosphere of censorship and intimidation that greets any expression of support for Palestinians...' eyal weizman
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Governments always lie, but how can we catch them in the act?

Ash Sarkar talks to eyal weizman

Premiering now novara.media/EyalWeizman

Superb piece by eyal weizman in the latest London Review of Books. Especially sharp on the colonial links between two German genocides.

lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v46/…