Archive of The Least of All Possible Evils

In celebration of the Announcement that Forensic Architecture have been nominated for the 2018 Turner Prize we bring you an excerpt from The Least Of All Possible Evils by Eyal Weisman, the director and one of the founders of Forensic Architecture.

No past revolution, she says, can be attributed to professional revolutionaries. Usually it was the other way around: “revolution broke out and liberated, as it were, the professional revolutionaries from wherever they happened to be – from jail, or from the coffee house, or from the library.”

Five great amateurs whose work changed the world, from author of The Amateur, Andy Merrifield. 

The Amateur: The Pleasures of Doing What You Love is 40% off, included free bundled ebook, until Sunday, June 18 at midnight UTC. Click here to access the discount.

This week marks the 50th Anniversary of the Arab-Israeli Six Day War, fought from 5-10 June 1967. Israel’s decisive victory included the capture of east Jerusalem and the Palestinian territories – the West Bank and Gaza – as well as the Golan Heights and Sinai. The end of the war marked the beginning of what has become a 50-year military occupation of the West Bank. In Ten Myths About Israel, Ilan Pappe describes ‘The June 1967 War Was a War of “No Choice”’ as a core myth of Israel.