Gilles Deleuze, Desert Islands and Other Texts 1954-1974, ed. David Lapoujade, trans. Mike Taormina (New York: Semiotext(e), 2003).
When at the end of the 1967 Arab-Israeli war, an Israeli-Syrian ceasefire line and a UN patrolled demilitarized buffer zone were established on the Golan Heights, they cut right through the land of the local Syrian Druze communities, separating many families. When, in 1981, Israel unilaterally annexed the Golan Heights, most of the Syrian residents of the Golan refused to take Israeli citizenship and officially remain of “undefined” nationality status. In the absence of a peace agreement, traffic across the ceasefire line is near impossible and telecommunications are severely curtailed. However, over the years other forms of cross-border communications were developed which enabled the Druze families to stay in touch with their relatives on the other side. The most remarkable of these is the practice of calling out through megaphones across the ceasefire line fence at the “shouting hill” facing the Druze village of Majdal Shams (located in the Israeli controlled side, at the foot of Mount Hermon). (Information provided by Smadar Dreyfus, Extra City)
Anthony Vidler, The Architectural Uncanny: Essays in the Modern Unhomely (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1994), 12.
Ibid., 6.
Walid Raad, Introduction to “The Withdrawal of Tradition Past a Surpassing Disaster,” (seminar lecture notes by Pelin Tan, unitednationsplaza, Berlin, February 10, 2007).
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Walid Raad, “The Withdrawal of Tradition Past a Surpassing Disaster,” (seminar lecture notes by Pelin Tan, unitednationsplaza, Berlin, February 10, 2007).
Mike Davis, Buda’s Wagon: A Brief History of the Car Bomb (New York: Verso, 2008), 5.
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Walid Raad, “The Withdrawal of Tradition Past a Surpassing Disaster,” (seminar lecture notes by Pelin Tan, unitednationsplaza, Berlin, February 10, 2007).
David Harvey, “Space as a Key Word,” in Spaces of Global Capitalism: Towards a Theory of Uneven Geographical Development (New York: Verso, 2006), 119.