Teaching about The Revolution in Urgent Times
This is the syllabus and overview of the course “The Anthropology of Insurrections and Revolution” that I’m currently teaching at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, to 67…
Author: Gastón Gordillo
Teaching about The Revolution in Urgent Times
This is the syllabus and overview of the course “The Anthropology of Insurrections and Revolution” that I’m currently teaching at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, to 67…
The Vectorial Multitude
For the past few months, a multitude of men, women, and children has been piercing through Fortress Europe by the mere…
The Vectorial Multitude
For the past few months, a multitude of men, women, and children has been piercing through Fortress Europe by the mere…
The Insurgent Underground
The people of Gaza have long been punished by the Israeli state for refusing to live in a ghetto, but in July and…
The Insurgent Underground
The people of Gaza have long been punished by the Israeli state for refusing to live in a ghetto, but in July and…
Pluto’s Terrain
The fascination with the images of Pluto’s rugged topography recently captured by the New Horizons probe reminds us that terrain is…
Pluto’s Terrain
The fascination with the images of Pluto’s rugged topography recently captured by the New Horizons probe reminds us that terrain is…
Terrain as Insurgent Weapon
Below is the abstract of my essay “Terrain as Insurgent Weapon: An Affective Geometry of Combat in the Valley of Death,” which I’ll present at the workshop Space, Materiality,…
Terrain as Insurgent Weapon
Below is the abstract of my essay “Terrain as Insurgent Weapon: An Affective Geometry of Combat in the Valley of Death,” which I’ll present at the workshop Space, Materiality,…
Empire on Trial
This is the introduction to my review essay of Forensis: The Architecture of Public Truth (2014, Sternberg Press, Berlin), by Forensic Architecture, an interdisciplinary team directed by Eyal Wei…
Empire on Trial
This is the introduction to my review essay of Forensis: The Architecture of Public Truth (2014, Sternberg Press, Berlin), by Forensic Architecture, an interdisciplinary team directed by Eyal Wei…
World of Walls
On the show Game of Thrones, state territoriality comes to a spatial end at a gigantic wall, The Northern Wall: a 300-meter-high, eighty-meter-thick rock of solid ice that…
World of Walls
On the show Game of Thrones, state territoriality comes to a spatial end at a gigantic wall, The Northern Wall: a 300-meter-high, eighty-meter-thick rock of solid ice that…
Lefebvre’s Beach
This review essay of Henri Lefebvre’s Toward an Architecture of Enjoyment was originally published at Society and Space. Special thanks to Lukasz Stanek (who edited the book and…
Lefebvre’s Beach
This review essay of Henri Lefebvre’s Toward an Architecture of Enjoyment was originally published at Society and Space. Special thanks to Lukasz Stanek (who edited the book and…