Ana;
Thank you for this.
It's an example of how artists can supply insight.
Best,
Joel
On 9/16/2014 8:34 AM, Ana Valdés wrote:
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]
<mailto:[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
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