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# MAPS /// War in the Manhattan Strip
map of the American military apparatuses on and around Manhattan as well as the strike records of the day / Map by Léopold Lambert Two funerals, two faces of Manhattan. The first a display of strength...
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# PALESTINE /// Political Geography of the Gaza Strip: A Territory of...
Map of the Gaza Strip (Dec 2011) /// United Nations Office for the Coordination of Human Affairs in Occupied Palestinian Territory I think that many of us are infuriated in front of the unfolding new...
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# PALESTINE /// Architectural Stockholm Syndrome
Israeli Settlement of Kokhav Ya’akov / New Palestinian Housing Complex (both near Ramallah) /// Photographs by Léopold Lambert I wrote many times about the numerous Israeli settlements in the West Bank...
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# CRUEL DESIGNS /// The Handcuffs of the Future
Apparatus and system for augmented detainee restraint. Patent assigned to Scottsdale Inventions LLC (2012) The following article is a good opportunity for me to open a new category in the blog’s...
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# POLITICS /// Epistolary Conversation with CollageLab
Few months ago, Joanne Pouzenc from CollageLab proposed that we would have an epistolary conversation in the frame of the CollageLab’s Points of view series which was opened by our good friend Daniel...
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# PALESTINE /// The Reasons of Disobeying a Law
Earlier this week, a group of about 250 Palestinians gathered in East Jerusalem in the E1 Area where the Israeli government announced the construction of 3,000 new housing units after the recent UN...
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# NY COMMUNE PROJECT /// The 1871 Paris Commune as seen by Karl Marx
Le Cri du Peuple by Jacques Tardi (2001) As I wrote earlier, the 1871 Paris Commune is the historical reference of this series of articles. Despite an institutional soft form of censorship, there has...
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# NY COMMUNE PROJECT /// DMZ by Brian Wood & Riccardo Burchielli
DMZ is a comic book that I discovered in my research for references for the NY Commune Project. It constitutes a quite literal precedent indeed. Written by Brian Wood and drawn by Riccardo Burchielli...
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# ARCHITECTURAL THEORIES /// We must become Claustrophobic Architects
El ángel exterminador (1962) is a film by Luis Buñuel in which the group of main characters are stuck for weeks in a living room after a urbane dinner. Nothing visually seems to prevent them from...
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# CRUEL DESIGNS /// Carceral Treadmill
The prospects for the section cruel designs continues with, once again, a carceral invention from the 19th century: a treadmill for prisoners as a disciplinary apparatus. JF Ptak Science Books’...
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# NEW YORK COMMUNE PROJECT /// Destruction of Vendôme Column in 1871:...
Photograph by André Adolphe Eugène Disdéri (1871) On May 16th 1871, at the core of the Paris Commune, a ceremony is organized to demolish the Vendôme Column, symbol of the Napoleonian imperialism (as...
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# MILITARIZED ARCHITECTURES /// The Contemporaneous Castles of the post-2001 Era
Do not let the fancy renderings of the winning entry for the new American Embassy in London mislead you, what you see is nothing else than the contemporaneous version of the Middle Age castle. The...
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# BOOKS /// Weaponized Architecture: The Impossibility of Innocence published...
I apologize to those of my readers who would reasonably see this article as a form of self-promotion, this will be the first and only post about this book. Following the research I undertook in 2010...
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# PHILOSOPHY /// Remus has to Die
One of the most famous fratricide of the world mythology is the one of Romulus and Remus. Similarly to Cain killing his brother Abel in the Bible/Quran or Seth killing his brother Osiris in the...
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# WEAPONIZED ARCHITECTURE /// Immurement: The Absolute Violence of...
This article is not a sequel as such of the previous one, but rather starts where the last post ended. I was evoking the possibility for the corpse of Remus to have been buried in the thickness of the...
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# WEAPONIZED ARCHITECTURE /// The Eastern State Penitentiary Panopticon: The...
The panopticon in its totality / assembled photographs by Léopold Lambert Last week, I had the opportunity to visit the former Eastern State Penitentiary in Philadelphia. The building is particular as...
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# CRUEL DESIGNS /// Innocent Stair ? The Killing Steps of the Mayans
We continue today to explore the “cruel designs” that collects each piece of architecture or objects that have been specifically designed to assess a hurtful power upon the body. Many people know the...
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# HISTORY /// The Homemade Weapons of the Syrian Resistance: Reflection on...
Aleppo, January 29, 2013. (Reuters/Zain Karam) As an introduction to this article, I would like to say that I have been hesitant to write the latter as many of the thirty eight photographs posted by...
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# CRUEL DESIGNS /// The Precise Design of Torture in Kafka’s Penal Colony
As I mentioned in one the most recent articles, I was feeling odd never to have dedicated a full article to the fascinating machine invented by Franz Kafka in his short story In the Penal Colony...
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# POLITICS /// From Student Design to Conservative Policies: Dutch Politician...
Original Scheme of Fleur Agema’s Prison project as she imagined it in 1999 Few days ago, Daniel Fernandez Pascual posted a very interesting project on his fantastic Deconcrete. Entittled Closed...
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