Siraj Izhar

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Notes on the Terroritorium (1)

Terror becomes a means of an embodiment and of realisation as terror essentialised for what the Zapatista call the “mental climate imposed on the world”: to maintain it as it were. The burden of its maintenance is fully democratised as the calling..

Lichtenberg Diary

Lichtenberg Diary

In the so-called “peaceful revolution” of the German unification or die Wende, the transfer from system to system, whether of People’s Palaces or vast housing complexes or even political parties, has selective processes of de- and re-memorialisation.

Moria Camp Siraj Izhar

corpus nullius

In a triumph of circular logic, the means of exclusion that serves to maintain a liberal Europe have pushed it to its very opposite.. We need to understand how the resurrection of the body without claim, the corpus nullius of colonial imagination, re-opened the door

Moria 2018

Soft Power and Hotspot Life

A defining aspect of hotspot life is that it always seems to ask “so how long will this last?” But the answer is open-ended; for as it evolves, it becomes socially sustainable as a hotspot economy. Through that, hotspot life pervades Lesbos though the financial realities that ..

Aghan Jungle Calais Siraj Izhar

Crossing the Trenches

The image is the means by which we both avoid the Other and yet represent the Other. As the rights of movement in the global age demarcates who the Other is, a confrontation with the image becomes necessary to envisage a future based on an equal rights of movement.

Trump in London. Siraj Izhar

Trump tropes

the unrequited quest for a transparency of power also leads perversely to the One, a spectacular enactment of the Leader. As the inevitabilities of liberal democracy and viral technology produce more Trumps, the louder the carnival laughter must become..

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