Thursday, June 21, 2007

An Exodus with Nowhere to Go





[1st image via Desperation Rises at Closed Border Crossings Between Gaza Strip and Israel (New York Times, Mohammed Saber/European Pressphoto Agency, June 19, 2007) Other Images via fotogaleri: Huriyet (thanks Orhan!) More News: Gazans Try to Reach Israel Via Tunnel / Israel opens Gaza border a crack / Israel moves 100 Palestinians to Egypt / Humanitarian supplies transferred to the Gaza Strip]

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      Peripheral Milit_Urb 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30

      Interviews

    • The Spatial Instrumentality of Torture: An Interview with Tom Hilde
    • Tracking Border Ghosts with Ronen Eidelman
    • A Dialogue on Walls with Jay Isenberg
    • The City in the Crosshairs: A Conversation with Stephen Graham (Pt. 2)
    • The City in the Crosshairs: A Conversation with Stephen Graham (Pt. 1)
    • The Military Planks of Capital Accumulation: An Interview with Neil Smith
    • Subtopia Meets Lebbeus Woods
    • One Small Project: Wes Janz
    • Hitching Stealth with Trevor Paglen
    • De:constructing Recidivism: Interview with Raphael Sperry

    Past Events

    Postopolis! LA (March 31 - April 4, 2009)

    Guest Speaker at Ball State University, Indiana, Sept. 18 - 23, 2007 & Sept. 30 - Oct. 5 in SoCal (U.S.-Mex. Border Crawl)

    "Towards a Humane Architecture" (with Wes Janz) / Photo by Neal Oshima, October, 2006

    Postopolis! at the Storefront in NYC, May 29 - June 2, 2007.

    Coverage: Flickr : YouTube : City of Sound : BLDGBLOG : Subtopia : Inhabitat : Archinect

    Guest Speaker at The Young and the Restless Lecture Series at Woodbury University School of Architecture, Thurs., Jan. 24th, 7:00PM, San Diego, CA, & Fri. Jan. 25th, 7:00PM, at Estacion Tijuana, Tijuana, Mexico.

      in the Periphery...

      • del.icio.us/bfunk

      blogs

      • Sonic Warfare
      • Lebbeus Woods (blog)
      • things
      • Pruned
      • Archinect
      • Super Colossal
      • BLYGAD
      • BLDGBLOG
      • anArchitecture
      • gravestmor
      • Bouphonia
      • Border Battles
      • Beat Diaspora
      • Landskip
      • Danger Room
      • 27B Stroke 6
      • New Mobilities
      • MountainRunner
      • archive: s0metim3s
      • The Living War Memorial
      • borderlands
      • Magical Urbanism
      • Defense Tech
      • phronesisaical
      • City of Sound
      • CityStates: The IUS Blog
      • Earth Architecture
      • Bombs and Shields
      • Forced Migration Current Awareness
      • John Robb's Blog
      • Global Guerrillas
      • Schneier on Security
      • Global Heartland
      • The Architecture of Fear
      • Architectures of Control
      • Arms Control Wonk
      • Sharon Weinberger
      • we make money not art
      • Critical Spatial Practice
      • Hajo Schilperoort
      • Architecture My Ninja Please
      • Progressive Reactionary
      • Space and Culture
      • Network Culture
      • squattercity
      • Enjoy Surveillance
      • Homeland Security Watch
      • Secrecy News
      • Human Security > Cities
      • at the border...
      • Smart Mobs
      • Informalism
      • Migrant Matters
      • Roland Piquepaille's Technology Trends
      • aggregät 4/5/6
      • Inhabitat
      • Monocle
      • Anonymous 1%
      • Alien Intelligencer
      • Polar Inertia
      • javlog
      • Proyectos 6y7
      • Unbuilt / Prishtina
      • Sprol
      • TELSTAR LOGISTICS

      Some Spectral Browsing

      • The Divide
      • The Politics of Verticality: Eyal Weizman
      • The Art of War: Eyal Weizman
      • Lethal Theory: Eyal Weizman
      • Switching Socieities Off: Stephen Graham (pdf)
      • Who's Responsible?: Derek Gregory
      • AFH: Open Architecture Network
      • One Small Project
      • Subterranea Britannica
      • Architects and Planners for Justice in Palestine
      • SAFE: Design Takes On Risk
      • INDEX:2005 Design to Improve Life
      • SonicAnta
      • Shelter Associates
      • DARPA
      • Virtual Security.Net
      • Human Security > Cities
      • Hyperborder
      • delete The Border
      • Why We Fight (a film by Eugene Jarecki)
      • Arsenal of Hypocrisy
      • BLDGBLOG: Mike Davis Interview pt. 1 & 2
      • Archinect: Re(di)stricting Urbicide
      • BLDGBLOG: A miniature city waiting for attack
      • BLDGBLOG: Psychovideography / 'Fortress Urbanism'
      • BLDGBLOG: Thousand Mile Colosseum
      • Archinect Feature: Hitching Stealth
      • 2005: at the border...
      • Archinect: Architectural Demolition in the Age of Cultural Cleansing
      • Pruned: Tactical geoannexations
      • Pruned: Earth-Fountain Redux
      • Pruned: Notes on Some Selections...

      Some Books

      • Indefensible Space: Micheal Sorkin
      • Hollow Land: Eyal Weizman
      • Violent Geographies: Gregory & Pred
      • The Colonial Present: Derek Gregory
      • City of Collision: Misselwitz & Rieniets
      • Cities Under Siege: Steve Graham
      • Space and Power: Paul Hirst
      • Splintering Urbanism: Steve Graham
      • Military Fortifications: Dale E. Floyd
      • Buda's Wagon: Mike Davis
      • City of Panic: Paul Virilio
      • Shadow Cities: Robert Neuwirth
      • City of Quartz: Mike Davis
      • Design Like You Give a Damn: Sinclair & Stohr
      • Planet of Slums: Mike Davis
      • The Destruction of Memory: Bevan
      • Bunker Archaeology: Virilio &
      • War and Architecture: Lebbeus Woods
      • Against the Wall: Michael Sorkin
      • Cities, War, and Terrorism: Steve Graham
      • Fortress America: Matthew Brzezinski
      • Fear & Space
      • Corporate Warriors: P. W. Singer
      • The Making of the Mexican Border
      • Barrio Urbanism: David R. Diaz
      • Quonset Hut: Metal Living For The Modern Age
      • Urban Forms and Colonial Confrontations: Algiers Under French Rule: Zeynep Çelik
      • Weapons Grade: David Hambling
      • The Next Jerusalem: Michael Sorkin
      • Urban informality: Roy & Alsayyad
      • Land, Rights and Innovation: Mutter & Payne
      • Informal City: Caracas Case: Brillembourg, Feireiss & Klumpner
      • Survival City: Tom Vanderbilt
      • Post-Military Society: Martin Shaw
      • Proving Grounds: Scott Kirsch
      • Illicit: How Smugglers, Traffickers, and Copycats are Hijacking the Global Economy
      • Studio at Large: Bell, Palleroni & Merkelbach
      • Domesticity at War: Beatriz Colomina
      • Contested Lands: Sumantra Bose

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