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Dans Le Pouvoir des mots, Judith Butler analyse les récents débats, souvent passionnés, sur la violence verbale dirigée contre les minorités, sur la pornographie et sur l’interdiction faite aux homosexuels membres de l’armée américaine de se déclarer tels. Il s’agit pour elle de montrer le danger qu’il y a à confier à l’État le soin de définir le champ du dicible et de(...)
Le pouvoir des mots : discours de haine et politique du performatif
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Dans Le Pouvoir des mots, Judith Butler analyse les récents débats, souvent passionnés, sur la violence verbale dirigée contre les minorités, sur la pornographie et sur l’interdiction faite aux homosexuels membres de l’armée américaine de se déclarer tels. Il s’agit pour elle de montrer le danger qu’il y a à confier à l’État le soin de définir le champ du dicible et de l’indicible. Dans un dialogue critique avec J. L. Austin, le fondateur de la théorie du discours performatif, mais aussi avec Sigmund Freud, Michel Foucault, Pierre Bourdieu, Jacques Derrida et Catharine MacKinnon, elle s’efforce d’établir l’ambivalence de la violence verbale (du hate speech) et des discours homophobes, sexistes ou racistes : s’ils peuvent briser les personnes auxquelles ils sont adressés, ils peuvent aussi être retournés et ouvrir l’espace d’une lutte politique et d’une subversion des identités.
Critical Theory
Huong Ngo: Ungrafting
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Huong Ngô (born 1979) is a Hong Kong–born artist based in Santa Barbara. Her conceptual, research-based practice often takes the form of installation, printmaking and nontraditional mediums. Ungrafting looks at histories of colonial violence, specifically French colonialism in Vietnam, as well as resistance movements, through image-making, translations and material(...)
Contemporary Art Monographs
October 2024
Huong Ngo: Ungrafting
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Huong Ngô (born 1979) is a Hong Kong–born artist based in Santa Barbara. Her conceptual, research-based practice often takes the form of installation, printmaking and nontraditional mediums. Ungrafting looks at histories of colonial violence, specifically French colonialism in Vietnam, as well as resistance movements, through image-making, translations and material investigations. Ngô turns to a series of early 20th-century photographs showing foreign trees and tree grafts planted in Vietnam by the French. For the artist, grafting—a procedure that involves cutting and splicing different species into a single plant—serves as a powerful metaphor for the physical violence inherent in colonialism. An essay by Justin Quang Nguyên Phan, and conversations between Ngô and Aline Lo and Evyn Lê Espiritu Gandhi and Chadwick Allen, reflect on the connection between Ngô’s exhibition and global anticolonialism, the trans-Indigenous and the role of the archive in artistic production.
Contemporary Art Monographs
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War has entered the cities. Since September 11, 2001 at the latest, it has become apparent that this is the case not only in Jerusalem and the Middle East, but also in Western metropolises. This book presents a thorough investigation of the current situation in Jerusalem from a trilateral perspective: Israeli, Palestinian, and international experts air their views. The(...)
Arch Middle East
June 2006, Basel, Boston, Berlin
City of collision : Jerusalem and the principles of conflict urbanism
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War has entered the cities. Since September 11, 2001 at the latest, it has become apparent that this is the case not only in Jerusalem and the Middle East, but also in Western metropolises. This book presents a thorough investigation of the current situation in Jerusalem from a trilateral perspective: Israeli, Palestinian, and international experts air their views. The discussion centers on the production and use of urban space under the conditions created by the conflict, including, for example, the so-called security fence, urban enclaves, exclaves, the approach to monuments and no-man’s-land, and the instrumentalization of infrastructures, which leads to the crass juxtaposition of highly developed and impoverished urban spaces. The conflict, however, does not bring with it destruction and violence alone, but also exhibits ambivalent effects and, along with them, new cultural and urban realities. Jerusalem has become a prototype in the age of new urban violence.
Arch Middle East
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At the foot of the Argentine Andes, bulldozers are destroying forests and homes to create soy fields in an area already strewn with rubble from previous waves of destruction and violence. Based on ethnographic research in this region where the mountains give way to the Gran Chaco lowlands, Gastón R. Gordillo shows how geographic space is inseparable from the material,(...)
Rubble: the afterlife of destruction
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At the foot of the Argentine Andes, bulldozers are destroying forests and homes to create soy fields in an area already strewn with rubble from previous waves of destruction and violence. Based on ethnographic research in this region where the mountains give way to the Gran Chaco lowlands, Gastón R. Gordillo shows how geographic space is inseparable from the material, historical, and affective ruptures embodied in debris. His exploration of the significance of rubble encompasses lost cities, derelict train stations, overgrown Jesuit missions and Spanish forts, stranded steamships, mass graves, and razed forests. Examining the effects of these and other forms of debris on the people living on nearby ranches and farms, and in towns, Gordillo emphasizes that for the rural poor, the rubble left in the wake of capitalist and imperialist endeavors is not romanticized ruin but the material manifestation of the violence and dislocation that created it.
Architecture ecologies
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Des portraits de membres de trois communautés d'Amérique du Nord (Amérindiens, Africains-Américains et Mennonites), réalisés en utilisant les codes de la photographie anthropométrique en usage dans le système colonial à la fin du XIXe siècle, qu'elle altère afin de les déconstruire. La photographe questionne la violence sociétale héritée de la hiérarchisation des races et(...)
We were never meant to survive / Nous n'étions pas censées survivre
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Des portraits de membres de trois communautés d'Amérique du Nord (Amérindiens, Africains-Américains et Mennonites), réalisés en utilisant les codes de la photographie anthropométrique en usage dans le système colonial à la fin du XIXe siècle, qu'elle altère afin de les déconstruire. La photographe questionne la violence sociétale héritée de la hiérarchisation des races et du passé américain.
Photography monographs
Adieu, Palmyre
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Voici Palmyre racontée et montrée par deux voyageurs passionnés qui l’ont visitée à de nombreuses reprises. Ce site inouï, détruit en 2015 par la violence de Daech, est reconstitué par les photographies de Ferrante Ferranti qui en donnent une vision exhaustive (temples, agora et théâtre, colonnades et arches, camp de Dioclétien, tombeaux), faisant ainsi oeuvre de mémoire.
History until 1900, Classicism
May 2016
Adieu, Palmyre
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Voici Palmyre racontée et montrée par deux voyageurs passionnés qui l’ont visitée à de nombreuses reprises. Ce site inouï, détruit en 2015 par la violence de Daech, est reconstitué par les photographies de Ferrante Ferranti qui en donnent une vision exhaustive (temples, agora et théâtre, colonnades et arches, camp de Dioclétien, tombeaux), faisant ainsi oeuvre de mémoire.
History until 1900, Classicism
Kristine Potter: Dark waters
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''Dark waters'', Kristine Potter’s second monograph, continues her engagement with the American landscape as a palimpsest for cultural ideologies. In this dark and brooding series, Potter reflects on the Southern Gothic landscape as evoked in the popular imagination of 'murder ballads' from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Her seductive, richly detailed(...)
Kristine Potter: Dark waters
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''Dark waters'', Kristine Potter’s second monograph, continues her engagement with the American landscape as a palimpsest for cultural ideologies. In this dark and brooding series, Potter reflects on the Southern Gothic landscape as evoked in the popular imagination of 'murder ballads' from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Her seductive, richly detailed black-and-white images channel the setting and characters of these songs, capturing the landscape of the American South, and creating a series of evocative portraits that stand in for the oft-unnamed women at the center of their stories. In the American murder ballad, which has taken on cult appeal and continue to be rerecorded even to this day, the riverscape is frequently the stage of crimes as described in their lyrics. Places like Murder Creek, Bloody Fork, and Deadman’s Pond are haunted by both the victim and perpetrator of violence in the world Potter conjures, reflecting the casual and popular glamorization of violence against women that remains prevalent in today’s cultural landscape.
Photography monographs
Where is Africa, Vol. 1
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''Where Is Africa'' is a conceptual project that accompanies a conceptual place, driven by the desire to dislodge Africa from categorical fixity and the representational logics of nation-states. Africa can never be fully enclosed by the residue of colonial violence or the totalitarian gaze of neoliberalism; instead, it creates infinite malleability, where place and(...)
Where is Africa, Vol. 1
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''Where Is Africa'' is a conceptual project that accompanies a conceptual place, driven by the desire to dislodge Africa from categorical fixity and the representational logics of nation-states. Africa can never be fully enclosed by the residue of colonial violence or the totalitarian gaze of neoliberalism; instead, it creates infinite malleability, where place and concept are untethered from each other.
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The original accident
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Urging us to face up to the consequences of our braves-new-world technologies, Virilio calls for the creation of a Museum of the Accident to fight our habituation to horror and violence, and our daily overexposure to terror, in the name, not of some preventive war, but of a preventive intelligence that would help us deal with both natural and artificial disasters.
The original accident
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Urging us to face up to the consequences of our braves-new-world technologies, Virilio calls for the creation of a Museum of the Accident to fight our habituation to horror and violence, and our daily overexposure to terror, in the name, not of some preventive war, but of a preventive intelligence that would help us deal with both natural and artificial disasters.
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Ce livre met en lumière l'itinérance au féminin, phénomène souvent ignoré, à travers les témoignages de femmes en situation de précarité au Québec. Il explore leurs parcours marqués par la violence, les traumatismes et les enjeux liés à la sexualité et à l'intimité. Riche en perspectives inclusives, cet ouvrage propose des solutions pour améliorer les pratiques(...)
Penser l'itinérance au féminin
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Ce livre met en lumière l'itinérance au féminin, phénomène souvent ignoré, à travers les témoignages de femmes en situation de précarité au Québec. Il explore leurs parcours marqués par la violence, les traumatismes et les enjeux liés à la sexualité et à l'intimité. Riche en perspectives inclusives, cet ouvrage propose des solutions pour améliorer les pratiques d'accompagnement des femmes, y compris celles des communautés LGBTQIA2+ et autochtones.
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