As I wrote before I think the exhibition and discussions initiated by Catherine David and Jordan Crandall were among the best I read and I am very happy I participated on them. The Israeli architect Eyal Weizman wrote an interesting book about violence and evil "The Least of All Possible Evils: Humanitarian Violence from Arendt to Gaza by Eyal Weizman Groundbreaking exploration of the philosophy underpinning Western humanitarian intervention. The principle of the “lesser evil”—the acceptability of pursuing one exceptional course of action in order to prevent a greater injustice—has long been a cornerstone of Western ethical philosophy. From its roots in classical ethics and Christian theology, to Hannah Arendt’s exploration of the work of the Jewish Councils during the Nazi regime, Weizman explores its development in three key transformations of the problem: the defining intervention of Médecins Sans Frontières in mid-1980s Ethiopia; the separation wall in Israel-Palestine; and international and human rights law in Bosnia, Gaza and Iraq. Drawing on a wealth of new research, Weizman charts the latest manifestation of this age-old idea. In doing so he shows how military and political intervention acquired a new “humanitarian” acceptability and legality in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries."
He is a very interesting researcher at Goldsmiths college and his "round table" discussions were very important to develop a kind of fusion between philosophy, urbanism and militarism. I wrote a short essay about him and his works "The Politics of Verticality", about how Jewish settlers and military have taken the Israeli and the Palestine civil societies as hostages. http://www.netartreview.net/weeklyFeatures/Weizman_English.html cheers Ana and Alan, be careful with your heart, we need your compassion and your passion! :) On Tue, Sep 16, 2014 at 12:25 PM, Alan Sondheim <[email protected]> wrote: > > > My soul does feel eaten, I'm serious about this. I have nightmares, heart > palpitations (going in for a monitor today), etc. But I can't ignore it (I > can keep my ruminations from the lists on the subject - certainly the > response by the nettime monitor was incredibly condescending and doesn't do > me or him or the issue any good)... > > I'd love to see a show just called something like Responses to Violence > and see what emerges - > > > > On Tue, 16 Sep 2014, rinus van alebeek wrote: > > Dear Alan and all, >> >> Long time ago Karl Popper wrote: >> "For the history of power politics is nothing but the history of >> international crime and mass murder (including it is true, some of the >> attempts to suppress them). This history is taught in schools, and some of >> the greatest criminals are extolled as heroes." >> >> So what to do if you want to establish your own order? One starts >> "cleaning" >> the place up. It is the way history tells. Leave it to the ghost writer. >> >> How to deal with this through art and other forms of expression? >> I really don't have a clue. It is like pondering on how to stop the waves >> of >> the sea rolling onto the shore. >> >> To kill, rape, torture must give some energy, a kind of high that is >> addictive and probably creates a psychological space where-in one feels >> him/herself master of all events in and outside oneself. >> Destroy that space is the one thing I can think of, while working on your >> art. >> But can we? And isn't such practice in the end self-destructive, because >> it >> will eat your soul? >> >> Meanwhile... >> >> Greetings from the sunny coast of Calabria, >> >> Rinus >> >> >> -- >> web >> radio >> >> blog >> >> >> > == > email archive http://sondheim.rupamsunyata.org/ > web http://www.alansondheim.org / cell 718-813-3285 > music: http://www.espdisk.com/alansondheim/ > current text http://www.alansondheim.org/su.txt > == > _______________________________________________ > NetBehaviour mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour > -- http://www.twitter.com/caravia15860606060 http://www.scoop.it/t/art-and-activism/ http://www.scoop.it/t/food-history-and-trivia http://www.scoop.it/t/urbanism-3-0 <http://www.scoop.it/t/postcolonial-mind/> cell Sweden +4670-3213370 cell Uruguay +598-99470758 "When once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been and there you will always long to return. — Leonardo da Vinci
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