Forensis: The Architecture of Public Truth.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Abu Hamdan, Lawrence, contributor.

Ahmed, Nabil, contributor.

Amir, Maayan, contributor.

Ashkar, Hisham, contributor.

Bishop, Ryan, contributor.

Burns, Jacob, contributor.

Burton, James, editor.

Caygill, Howard, contributor.

Cuellar, Gabriel, contributor.

Diamond, Eitan, contributor, editor.

Dische-Becker, Emily, contributor.

Franke, Anselm, editor, contributor.

Hameed, Ayesha, contributor.

Heller, Charles, contributor.

Kazan, Helene, contributor.

Keenan, Thomas, editor, contributor.

Krämer, Steffen, contributor.

Lahoud, Adrian, contributor.

Linke, Armin, contributor.

Littell, Jonathan, contributor.

Nestler, Gerald, contributor.

Palmesino, John, contributor.

Pelt, Robert Jan van, contributor.

Pereira, Godofredo, contributor.

Perugini, Nicola, contributor.

Petti, Alessandro, contributor.

Pezzani, Lorenzo, contributor.

Romano, Cesare P. R., contributor.

Rönnskog, Ann-Sofi, contributor.

Schuppli, Susan, editor, contributor.

Sebregondi, Francesco, editor, contributor.

Sfard, Michael, contributor.

Sheikh, Shela, editor, contributor.

Sturdy Colls, Caroline, contributor.

Tavares, Paulo, contributor.

Türetken, Füsun, contributor.

Jovanović Weiss, Srdjan, contributor.

Weizman, Eyal, editor, contributor.

Weizman, Ines, contributor.

Woods, Richard C., 1950- contributor.

Decolonizing Architecture Art Residency (Program), contributor.

Forensic Architecture, editor.

Grupa Spomenik, contributor.

Library Stack, distributor.

Model Court, contributor.

Modelling Kivalina, contributor.

NAO, contributor.

SITU Research, contributor.

Territorial Agency, contributor.

Working Group Four Faces of Omarska, contributor.

ZAK Group, contributor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Geopolitics.

Military art and science.

Refugees--Legal status, laws, etc..

Remote-sensing images.

Space (Architecture).

Violence.

War.

Architectural Space.

Refugees.

Remote sensing.

Genre:

Discursive works

Essay Collection.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Place of Publication:

[Place of publication not identified] : Forensic Architecture, 2014.

[Place of publication not identified] : Sternberg Press, 2014.

Summary:

"Forensics originated from the term "forensis" which is Latin for "pertaining to the forum." The Roman forum was a multidimensional space of negotiation and truth-finding in which humans as well as objects participated in politics, law, and the economy. With the advent of modernity, forensics shifted to refer exclusively to the courts of law and to the use of medicine, and today as a science in service to the law. The present use of forensics, along with its popular representations have become increasingly central to the modes by which states police and govern their subjects. By returning to forensis this book seeks to unlock forensics' original potential as a political practice and reorient it. Inverting the direction of the forensic gaze it designates a field of action in which individuals and organizations detect and confront state violations. The condition of forensis is one in which new technologies for mediating the "testimony" of material objects-bones, ruins, toxic substances, landscapes, and the contemporary medias in which they are captured and represented-are mobilized in order to engage with struggles for justice, systemic violence, and environmental transformations across the frontiers of contemporary conflict."-- provided by distributor.

Notes:

Standard Copyright.

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