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Eyal Weizman

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Eyal Weizman


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in Haifa, Israel
July 26, 1970

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Eyal Weizman is an architect, professor of spatial and visual cultures and director of the Centre for Research Architecture at Goldsmiths, University of London. Since 2014 he is a global professor at Princeton University. In 2010 he set up the research agency Forensic Architecture (FA). The work of FA is documented in the exhibition and book FORENSIS (Sternberg, 2014). In 2007 he set up, with Sandi Hilal and Alessandro Petti, the architectural collective DAAR in Beit Sahour/Palestine. This work is documented in the book Architecture after Revolution (Sternberg, 2014). In 2013 he designed a permanent folly in Gwangju, South Korea which was documented in the book The Roundabout Revolution (Sternberg, 2015). His other books include The Conflic ...more

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“Derived from the Latin forensis, the word’s root refers to the ‘forum’, and the practice and skill of making an argument before a professional, political or legal gathering. In classical”
Eyal Weizman, The Least of All Possible Evils: Humanitarian Violence from Arendt to Gaza

“the Yale professor Stanley Milgram’s infamous 1961 experiment sought to investigate the extent to which ordinary people would obey the orders of figures in authority to inflict pain on others. On one side of a room divided by a one-way mirror, a scientist ordered a volunteer to deliver electrical shocks of ever-increasing strength to a person strapped to a chair on the other side of the room whenever she or he gave wrong answers to questions read from a questionnaire.”
Eyal Weizman, The Least of All Possible Evils: Humanitarian Violence from Arendt to Gaza

“In both domestic and international law, as Christopher Joyce and Eric Stover dryly remarked in their book on forensic anthropology, ‘lawyers tend to recruit scientists for courtroom appearances much like the way the police shop for attack-dogs – they look for signs of good breeding coupled with a willingness to take a bite out of an adversary.’20”
Eyal Weizman, The Least of All Possible Evils: Humanitarian Violence from Arendt to Gaza

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