Animism | Anselm Franke
The normative modern understanding of the concept holds animism to be a pre-modern social and psychological mechanism by means of which nature and things were erroneously endowed with souls and agency....
View ArticleArchaeology of the Present | Gilles Deleuze
It is as if, speech having withdraw from image to become founding act, the image, for its part, raised the foundations of space, the ‘strata’, those silent powers of before or after speech, before or...
View ArticleAuscultation | Lawrence Abu Hamdan |ôskəlˈtā sh ən |
The act of listening to the sounds of the body as part of a medical diagnosis. i.e the testimony emitted by the body and not the voice. The post Auscultation | Lawrence Abu Hamdan | ôskəlˈtā sh ən |...
View ArticleArchaeontology | Ewa Domanska
The gathering of existing things and the contemplation of their being with the aim of regaining the beginning. Such a reformulation would point to the shift of emphasis from knowing to being, from...
View ArticleData Remanence | Matthew Kirschenbaum
Computer forensics is able to discern “data remanence” or trace evidence of previous data inscriptions that sit alongside more recent encodings. Although erased digital data is “flagged” by the system...
View ArticleEstrangement | Jean François Lyotard
A landscape [emerges] whenever the mind is transported from one sensible matter to another, but retains the sensorial organization appropriate to the first, or at least a memory of it. The earth seen...
View ArticleExchange Principle | Edmond Locard
Edmond Locard formulated the single most important principle that has shaped the field of forensic science, namely the precept that “every contact leaves a trace”. It posits that in any encounter...
View ArticleForensic Aesthetics | Eyal Weizman
Forensics includes both field-work and forum-work. It is not only about science as a tool of investigation—the field—but about science as a means of persuasion—the forum. It is crucially about...
View ArticleForensic Imagination | Susan Schuppli
This adapative notion of forensics is not content to merely ventriloquise the object-world around us but recognises that materials themselves have agency and are capable of speaking their histories...
View ArticleForum | Eyal Weizman
Derived from the Latin forensis, the word “forensic” refers at root to “forum.” Forensic is thus the art of the forum—the practice and skill of presenting an argument before a professional, political,...
View ArticleGeo-Logic | Susan Schuppli
A mode of anti-humanist reasoning in which the time scales and spatial expressions of history are radically reorganised. In geology fault-lines cut into the rock bedding of earlier material formations...
View ArticleHysteresis | Susan Schuppli
Hysteresis is a condition of persistence common to analogue media whereby the previous states of a system remain discernable as residual memory traces.The post Hysteresis | Susan Schuppli appeared...
View ArticleMaterial Witness | Susan Schuppli
The material witness is an artefact which can speak through time, one that contains an archive within its material substrates—trace evidence of the past made visible and/or rendered audible by the...
View ArticleModest Witness I Donna Haraway
In a critique of scientific objectivity, Donna Haraway looks to Steven Shapin and Simon Schaffer’s treatment of Robert Boyle (1627-1691), chemist and inventor of the air-pump in order to examine the...
View ArticleMummy Complex | André Bazin
If the plastic arts were put under psychoanalysis, the practice of embalming the dead might turn out to be a fundamental factor in their creation. The process might reveal that at the origin of...
View ArticleMurky Evidence | Paulo Tavares
Because nature has become a central space to which cultural and political rights are bound, with increasing frequency and relevance, ecological systems tend to inhabit the courtrooms of national and...
View ArticleNullum Crimen Sine Lege | Nicola Perugini
Literally speaking, this Latin expression, deriving from Roman law and absorbed within many Western and non-Western codes, means “no crime without correspondent law”. The axiom nullum crimen sine lege...
View ArticleOsteobiography | Clyde Snow
Bones make great witnesses, they speak softly but they never forget and they never lie.The post Osteobiography | Clyde Snow appeared first on Forensic Architecture.
View ArticleQuasi-Object | Steven Connors on Michel Serres
The quasi-object is not an object, but it is one nevertheless, since it is not a subject, since it is in the world; it is also a quasi-subject, since it marks or designates a subject who, without it,...
View ArticleRadioactive Fossil | Gilles Deleuze
It is as if the past surfaces in itself but in the shape of personalities which are independent, alienated, off-balance, in some sense embryonic, strangely active fossils, radioactive, inexplicable in...
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