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Archive of Potential History

    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
    09 September 2021
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    Reading List

    US Empire 20 Years after 9/11: A Reading List

    Essential readings on the United States' imperialist ventures in the Middle East by Deepa Kumar, Suzanne Schneider, and Andrew Cockburn.

    Ariella Azoulay
    24 February 2021
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    Dear Benjamin Stora

    Ariella Azoulay responds to the historian Benjamin Stora's new official report on the French colonization of Algeria. 

    Zainab Ramahi and Azadeh Shahshahani
    10 August 2020
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    Destroying to Replace: Settler Colonialism from Kashmir to Palestine

    "Despite India’s successful overthrow of British rule, it has created a colonial occupation of its own in Jammu and Kashmir. And recently, it has been taking its cues straight from Israel’s playbook."

    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."

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