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NEW IN PAPERBACK HOLLOW LAND: ISRAEL’S ARCHITECTURE OF OCCUPATION By EYAL WEIZMAN OUT NOW ----------------------------------- Acclaimed exploration of the political space created by Israel's colonial occupation “The most astonishing book on architecture that I have read in years.” – Edwin Heathcote, FINANCIAL TIMES http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/de3d71b2-3fca-11dc-b034-0000779fd2ac.html#axzz24TMTWehM ----------------------------------- >From the tunnels of Gaza to the militarized airspace of the Occupied >Territories, Eyal Weizman unravels Israel's mechanisms of control and its >transformation of Palestinian towns, villages and roads into an artifice where >all natural and built features serve military ends. Weizman traces the >development of this strategy, from the influence of archaeology on urban >planning, Ariel Sharon's reconceptualization of military defence during the >1973 war, through the planning and architecture of the settlements, to the >contemporary Israeli discourse and practice of urban warfare and airborne >targeted assassinations. HOLLOW LAND lays bare the political system at the heart of this complex and terrifying project of late-modern colonial occupation. ----------------------------------- Praise for HOLLOW LAND: “A masterpiece of political analysis.” – James Ron, THE NATION “Eyal Weizman has taken Edward Said’s thesis to a new level, generating extraordinary, and at times surreally uncomfortable, conclusions…Weizman's book is of salutary interest.” – Jay Merrick, INDEPENDENT “Weizman takes his readers on a tour of the visible and invisible ways in which Israel implements its control over Palestinians... HOLLOW LAND is eloquent about the architectural chaos and confusion created by Israel in the Occupied Territories.” – LONDON REVIEW OF BOOKS http://www.lrb.co.uk/v29/n15/yonatan-mendel/imagined-territories “A passionate jeremiad.” – HARPER’S “Eyal Weizman brilliantly deconstructs Israel’s yoking of traditionally humanist disciplines and discourse to the service of its campaign against the Palestinians. This book is chilling but essential reading.” – Ahdaf Soueif “HOLLOW LAND is a remarkably original work that confirms Eyal Weizman's indispensable role as a critic of the sinister and ubiquitous instrumentality of space in contemporary politics and life.” – Michael Sorkin “HOLLOW LAND is a remarkable achievement. Scholarly and poetic in its epic reach, and narrated with the clarity of vision and sensibility of an artist, HOLLOW LAND is destined to become a classic.” – Karma Nabulsi “A startling exercise in what it means to think through the axiomatics of occupation, capture and subjection... Weizman boldly attempts to create an entirely new method to conceptualize the relationship between surfaces, movement, and the tools of war.” – Achille Mbembe “[The] architecture of occupation is thoroughly analysed in the Israeli-born architect Eyal Weizman's HOLLOW LAND.” – Ben White, NEW STATESMAN http://www.newstatesman.com/books/2008/01/israel-occupation-palestinian “A wrenching account of the multiple ways in which the land of Palestine has been hollowed out by Israeli occupation. Weizman's stunning combination of words and images is at once a brilliant critique of the politics of space and a searing indictment of colonial rule and dispossession.” – Derek Gregory ----------------------------------- EYAL WEIZMAN is Professor of Spatial and Visual Cultures at Goldsmiths, University of London, where he directs the Centre for Research Architecture and the European Research Council funded project Forensic Architecture. He is also a founder member of the collective Decolonizing Architecture Art Residency (DAAR) in Bethlehem, Palestine. He is the author of HOLLOW LAND, THE LEAST OF ALL POSSIBLE EVILS, and co-editor of A CIVILIAN OCCUPATION. He lives in London. ----------------------------------- ISBN: 9781844678686/ US$24.95 / £14.99 / 336 pages ----------------------------------- For more information or to buy the book visit: http://www.versobooks.com/books/1107-hollow-land ----------------------------------- Academics can request an inspection copy. For further information please go to: http://www.versobooks.com/pg/desk-copies --------------------------------- Visit Verso’s website for information on our upcoming events, new reviews and publications and special offers: http://www.versobooks.com Sign up for the Verso mailing list: https://www.versobooks.com/users/sign_up Become a fan of Verso on Facebook http://www.facebook.com/pages/Verso-Books/205847279448577 And get updates on Twitter too! http://twitter.com/VersoBooks ________________________________________________ Send list submissions to: Marxism@greenhouse.economics.utah.edu Set your options at: http://greenhouse.economics.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
