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Archive of Civil Imagination

    Jessie Kindig
    04 March 2022
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    This Book Came to Me Like a Gift

    Verso editor Jessie Kindig on editing Ariella Aïsha Azoulay, part of a roundtable of responses to Potential History.

    Zoe Druick
    03 March 2022
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    Can the Imperial Logic of Documentary be Repaired?

    Zoë Druick asks if documentary films can escape their imperial past, part of the Verso roundtable "Unlearning Imperialism" considering the work of Ariella Aïsha Azoulay.

    Paula Gaetano Adi
    03 March 2022
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    Imagine Going on Strike: Intelligent Machines

    Artist and scholar Paula Gaetano Adi asks: can we consider robots as comrades? Can we imagine robots going on strike against their own instrumentation? Part of the larger Verso roundtable on "Unlearning Imperialism."

    Lukas Rieppel
    02 March 2022
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    Potential Prehistory

    Historian of science Lukas Rieppel considers the connections between geology, prehistory, and imperialism, as part of the "Unlearning Imperialism" Verso roundtable.

    Y Hamilakis
    02 March 2022
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    A Handbook for a Haunted, Nomadic Age: Potential Material Histories

    Archaeologist Yannis Hamilakis on the connections between photography and archaeology, and our haunted present. Part of the Verso roundtable "Unlearning Imperialism," considering the work of Ariella Aïsha Azoulay.

    Vazira Zamindar
    01 March 2022
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    Towards a Radical Practice of History: When Can History Repair?

    Historian Vazira Zamindar asks if history has the disciplinary tools to practice repair, part of the Verso roundtable "Unlearning Imperialism" considering the work of Ariella Aïsha Azoulay.

    Verso Books
    23 August 2021
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    Film and Media: Verso Student Reading

    Our selected Film and Media reading for the academic year ahead: all 40% off until the end of September.

    Ariella Aïsha Azoulay
    07 July 2020
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    Letter to Sylvia Wynter

    In an open letter to theorist Sylvia Wynter on Wynter's text "1492: A New World View," Ariella Aïsha Azoulay  retrieves memories of her Jewish family's Arabness: "I refuse to become a memory-less Jew, whose life was mutated and reformatted to begin only with the creation of the nation-state."

    Ariella Azoulay
    10 October 2018
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    Unlearning Imperial Rights to Take (Photographs)

    The millions whose photographs are taken are not referred to in the histories and theories of photography. From an early stage, it was assumed that the people photographed provided the resources and the cheap or free labor for the large-scale photographic enterprise. In this fourth part of the Unlearning Decisive Moments of Photography series, Ariella Azoulay looks at photographers as cultural agents of imperialism.

    Ariella Azoulay
    07 September 2018
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    Unlearning the Origins of Photography

    In the first part of the series Unlearning Decisive Moments of Photography, Ariella Azoulay urges us to unlearn the knowledge that calls upon us to account for photography as having its own origins, histories, practices, or futures, and to explore it as part of the imperial world that we operate in. 

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