1. Against the Regime of “Emptiness”
Samia Henni
2. Desert Futures Collective
A Conversation with Brahim El Guabli, Jill Jarvis,
and Francisco E. Robles
3. It Is Not a Desert Where Grandmother Sits
Menna Agha
4. Drawing Deserts, Making Worlds
Danika Cooper
5. Imperial Desert Effect: Palestine Is There, Where It Had Always
Been
Ariella Aïsha Azoulay
6. Space Wars: An Investigation into Kuwait's Hinterland
A Conversation with Saphiya Abu Al-Maati, Asaiel Al Saeed, Aseel
AlYaqoub, and Yousef Awaad Hussein
7. The Colonial-Modern Politics of Desertification (Notes on the
Past and the Future of the Amazon Forest)
Paulo Tavares
8. Overland There’s Shorter Time to Dream
XqSu
9. Archives of Forgetfulness
A Conversation with Bongani Kona
10. Anywhere, USA: Aramco’s Housing in Saudi Arabia’s Desert
Dalal Musaed Alsayer
11. The White Sea Canal and the Rhetorical Desertification of
Karelia
Alla Vronskaya
12. Architecture Adrift in the Antarctic Desert
Timothy Hyde
13. Observatoire des armements
Samia Henni is assistant professor of history of architecture and urban development at Cornell University’s College of Architecture, Art, and Planning. She is the author of the multi-award-winning Architecture of Counterrevolution: The French Army in Northern Algeria (gta Verlag, 2017), the editor of the War Zones gta papers no. 2 (gta Verlag, 2018), and the curator of exhibitions, such as Archives: Secret-Défense? (ifa Gallery, SAVVY Contemporary, Berlin, 2021), Housing Pharmacology (Manifesta 13, Marseille, 2020) and Discreet Violence: Architecture and the French War in Algeria (Zurich, Rotterdam, Berlin, Johannesburg, Paris, Prague, Ithaca, Philadelphia, Charlottesville, 2017–2022). She was formerly Albert Hirschman Chair at the Institute of Advanced Study in Marseille, a visiting Geddes Fellow at Edinburgh School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture, and a visiting professor at the Institute of Art History at the University of Zurich.
[Deserts Are Not Empty] is a terrific compilation of essays that
allow us to rethink how the desert has been transformed from an
actual condition to an idea in service of extractive politics.
*The Atchitect's Newpaper*
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