Where are human rights…?

Conference lectured at the Symposium "Arxipelago of Exceptions. Sovereignties of Extraterritoriality" CCCB November 2005 «Where are human rights when more than 200 Muslims are rotting for months in your prisons in a 4x5 meter room, without any of them finding a place even to sit...

Between the striated and the smooth. Urban enclaves and fractal maneuvers

Conference lectured at the Symposium "Arxipelago of Exceptions. Sovereignties of Extraterritoriality" CCCB 10-11 November 2005 The advent of the levée en masse has monopolized the use of violence in the hands of the nation state. The persistence of European states to...

Technologies of exception. Urban warfare and US military technoscience

Conference lectured at the Symposium "Arxipelago of Exceptions. Sovereignties of Extraterritoriality" CCCB 10-11 November 2005 Introductionl «For Western military forces, asymmetric warfare in urban areas will be the greatest challenge of this century ... The city will be the...

On the Palestinian refugee camp as a permanent temporary solution regime

Conference lectured at the Symposium "Arxipelago of Exceptions. Sovereignties of Extraterritoriality" CCCB 10-11 November 2005 Refugee camps1 are designed to be provisory architectural and social environments that serve as a temporary solution in a situation of emergency. Despite the...

From the global border to the border neighborhood

Conference lectured at the Symposium "Arxipelago of Exceptions. Sovereignties of extraterritoriality" CCCB 10-11 November 2005 1. The new global border Tracing an imaginary line along the US-Mexico border and extending it directly across a map of the world, what emerges is a...

Enduring innocence

Conference lectured on 10th November at the Symposium "Archipelago of Exceptions. Sovereignties of extraterritoriality" CCCB 10-11 November 2005 «You have to hand it to America. It has exercised a quite clinical manipulation of power worldwide while masquerading as a force for...

Walking through walls: Soldiers as architects in the Israeli/Palestinian conflict

Conference lectured at the symposium "Arxipelago of Exception. Sovereignties of extraterritoriality" CCCB 10-11 November 2005 This essay is based around several interviews1 I conducted with both Israeli military personnel and Palestinian activists following the 2002 Israeli incursion...

La vida en suspenso

Archipelago of exceptions

Several years ago, and a few years before 9/11, the Tsunami, Katrina and the terrifying leap in petrol prices that followed them, Jacques Attali1 pondered the phenomenal financial triumph of the film Titanic which left behind all previous box-office records of apparently similar disaster movies....