Between visible and undetectable violence

Reivew of Eyal Weizman, Forensic Architecture

Martina Tazzioli ~ RP 2.02 (June 2018), pp. 97–100 ~ Review

Eyal Weizman, Forensic Architecture: Violence at the Threshold of Detectability, Zone Books, New York, 2017. 368pp., £32.95 hb., 978 1 93540 886 4 Unequal access to visibility, along with the erasure of traces, determine the partial undetectability of various events of violence, crimes and human rights violations. Such thresholds of detectability consist, according to Eyal […]

Husserl and Phenomenology

Roger Waterhouse ~ RP 016 (Spring 1977) ~ Article

Here, then, is a rundown of the argument: 1 The emergence of image-specificity through Western art is indirectly linked (but not directly until the present) with the emergence of the bourgeoisie and the values of individualism in their wake. Its technical qualitative change comes with the invention of photography and with the technological developments in […]