Post‐Traumatic Urbanism

Abstract

Editorial ( Helen Castle). About the Guest-Editors (Adrian Lahoud, Charles Rice and Anthony Burke). Spotlight: Visual highlights of the issue. Introduction: Post-Traumatic Urbanism (Adrian Lahoud). Trauma Within the Walls: Notes Towards a Philosophy of the City (Andrew Benjamin). The Space-Time of Pre-emption: An Interview with Brian Massumi (Charles Rice). Making Dubai: A Process in Crisis (Todd Reisz). Changes of State: Slow-Motion Trauma in the Gangetic Plains of India (Anthony R Acciavatti). After the Event: Speculative Projects in the Aftermath (Samantha Spurr). Forensic Architecture (Eyal Weizman, Paulo Tavares, Susan Schuppli and Situ Studio). The Infrastructure of Stability (Tarsha Finney). Post-Apocalypse Now (Mark Fisher). The Eighth Day: God Created the World in Seven Days. This is The Eighth Day (Tony Chakar). Figures in the Sand (Christopher Hight and Michael Robinson). The Urban Complex: Scalar Probabilities and Urban Computation (Anthony Burke). Project for a Mediterranean Union (Adrian Lahoud). Fearscapes: Caracas Postcards from a Violent City (Eduardo Kairuz). Energy Territories (Anthony Burke). Architecture, Contingency and Crisis: An Interview with Slavojiek (Adrian Lahoud). The Very Mark of Repression: The Demolition Theatre of the Palast der Republik and the New Schloss Berlin (Khadija Carroll La). On Message: An Interview with Michael Chertoff (Charles Rice). Borderline Syndrome (Ole Bouman). Counterpoint: Rebuilding from Below the Bottom: Haiti (Jayne Merkel and Craig Whitaker).