Walking through walls: Soldiers as architects in the Israeli/Palestinian conflict

Conference lectured at the symposium "Arxipelago of Exception. Sovereignties of extraterritoriality" CCCB 10-11 November 2005 This essay is based around several interviews1 I conducted with both Israeli military personnel and Palestinian activists following the 2002 Israeli incursion...

La vida en suspenso

Archipelago of exceptions

Several years ago, and a few years before 9/11, the Tsunami, Katrina and the terrifying leap in petrol prices that followed them, Jacques Attali1 pondered the phenomenal financial triumph of the film Titanic which left behind all previous box-office records of apparently similar disaster movies....

Lahore: Rich past, uncertain future?

Thinking Europe

Mecca: Cosmpopolis in the desert

L'excepció

  L'excepció és una expressió del caràcter arbitrari del poder. Bauman ho ha explicat a la seva lectura del llibre de Job. El poder no pot estar mai completament regulat perquè perdria la seva força principal: la que es deriva del seu...

L'Europa del futur

The sense of Europe

Talk given at the Centre of Contemporary Culture of Barcelona on 12th November 2007, as part of the «Thinking Europe» lecture series. Eric Hobsbawm: Thinking about Europe is thinking about an open question and, therefore, it is something that needs discussion and, for this reason, it...