Torture and raison d’état
Melanie Richter-Montpetit has an essay at The disorder of things, ‘Why Torture When Torture Does Not Work? Orientalism, Anti-Blackness and the Persistence of White Terror‘, which repays careful...
View ArticleJoining the dots…
The Bureau of Investigative Journalism and The Rendition Project have just published their first quarterly report on 119 people secretly detained and tortured by the CIA as part of the ‘war on/of...
View ArticleArt in another age of mechanical destruction
Anthony Downey‘s beautifully illustrated and generously hyperlinked essay on The legacy of the war on terror for Tate Etc (34) (2015) is here. For centuries artists have both responded to and reflected...
View ArticleMore tortured geographies
There have been several attempts to reconstruct the geography of the CIA’s program of extraordinary rendition. I’ve long admired the work of my good friend Trevor Paglen, described in his book with...
View ArticleRedacted
Much of my work on has had to with documents that have been heavily like this – not only text but as you can see also … Continue reading →
View ArticleHidden in plane sight
Just out: Negative Publicity: artefacts of extraordinary rendition by Edmund Clark and Crofton Black, with an essay by Eyal Weizman: British photographer Edmund Clark and counterterrorism investigator...
View ArticleKill Boxes
As 2016 lurches towards its end, I’ve received notice of a number of books that once I would have hoped would be of purely historical interest. No longer. So we’ll start with Elisabeth Weber‘s...
View ArticleCounterinsurgency and the counterrevolution
Another interesting interview tied to a book, this time between Jeremy Scahill and Bernard Harcourt, over at The Intercept. A central argument of Bernard’s book, The Counterrevolution: how our...
View ArticleProject(ion)s
Happy New Year! With this, as with so much else, I’m late – but the greeting is none the less sincere, and I’m grateful for your continued interest and engagement with my work. I’ve resolved to return...
View ArticleIslands of Sovereignty
When so many eyes are on the plight of refugees and asylum-seekers making the ever dangerous crossing of the Mediterranean, it’s important to attend to the wider geographies of marine migration and its...
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