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Forensic Architecture, 2010.
Editorial collective
Claudia Aradau, Mat hew Charles,
David Cunningham, Howard Feather,
Peter Hal ward, Esther Leslie, Stewart Martin, Mark Neocleous, Peter Osborne,
Stel a Sandford, Chris Wilbert
Contributors finn brunton
(http://finnb.net) is a postdoctoral researcher at NYU–Steinhardt.
He works on digital media – adaptation, modification and misuse – and issues of publicity, privacy and anonymity. He is writing The Spew: A History of Spam.
Eyal weizman
is an Israeli architect and writer based in London. He is Director of Goldsmiths’ Centre for Research Architecture and author of Hol ow Land: Israel’s Architecture of Occupation (Verso, 2007).
Omedi ochieng
teaches international rhetoric, argumentation and communication criticism at Westmont Col ege, Santa Barbara. He researches in the areas of the rhetoric of African philosophy, rhetorical historiography and political theory and discourse.
Harry harootunian
is Emeritus Professor of History at New York University and Visiting Professor in Literature at Duke University.
His latest book (in Japanese) is The Struggle Between History and Memory (Misuzu, Tokyo, 2009).
Commentary
Roar So Wildly: Spam, Technology and Language
Finn brunton ……………………………………………………………………………………… 2aRTiClES
Forensic Architecture: Only the Criminal Can Solve the Crime
Eyal Weizman …………………………………………………………………………………….. 9
The African Intellectual: Hountondji and After
Omedi Ochieng ………………………………………………………………………………… 25
Who Needs Postcoloniality? A Reply to Lindner
harry harootunian ……………………………………………………………………………. 38REviEWS
Bret de Bary, ed., Universities in Translation: The Mental Labor of GlobalisationAndrew Ross, Nice Work If You Can Get It: Life and Labor in Precarious Times
Jo littler ………………………………………………………………………………………….. 45
Gevork Hartoonian, ed., Walter Benjamin and Architecture
Owen hatherley ……………………………………………………………………………….. 48
Reinhold Martin, Utopia’s Ghost: Architecture and Postmodernism Again
douglas Spencer ……………………………………………………………………………… 51
Judith Butler and Catherine Malabou, Sois mon corps: Une lecture contemporaine de la domination et de la servitude chez Hegel
C.E. mcmenamin ……………………………………………………………………………… 53
Isabel e Graw, High Price: Art between the Market and Celebrity Culture
Philipp Kleinmichel …………………………………………………………………………… 55
David Harvey, The Enigma of Capital and the Crises of Capitalism
howard Feather ……………………………………………………………………………….. 57lETTER
Who Was Oscar Masotta? Response to Derbyshire