Adrian Lahoud is a practicing architect and Senior Lecturer in Architecture at The University of Technology Sydney. His current research addresses issues of conflict with regards to urbanism in the Middle East.Charles Rice is an architectural historian, theorist and critic. He is currently Senior Lecturer and Associate Head of the School of Architecture at the University of Technology Sydney.Anthony Burke is Senior Lecturer and Director of the Master of Digital Architecture course at the University of Technology Sydney, and Director of Offshorestudio.net, a Sydney-based design practice specializing in design and theory related to new media and advanced computational methods.

• Editorial 5Helen CastleAbout The Guest-Editors 6Adrian Lahoud, Charles Rice and Anthony BurkeSpotlight 8Visual highlights of the issueIntroduction 14Post-Traumatic UrbanismAdrian LahoudTrauma Within the Walls: Notes Towards a Philosophy of the City 24Andrew BenjaminThe Space-Time of Pre-emption: An Interview with Brian Massumi 32Charles RiceMaking Dubai: A Process in Crisis 38Todd ReiszChanges of State: Slow Motion Trauma in the Gangetic Plains of India 44Anthony AcciavattiAfter the Event: Speculative Projects in the Aftermath 50Samantha SpurrForensic Architecture 58Eyal Weizman, Paulo Tavares, Susan Schuppli and Situ StudioThe Infrastructure of Stability 64Tarsha FinneyPost-Apocalypse Now 70Mark FisherThe Eighth Day: God Created the World in Seven Days. 74This is The Eighth DayTony ChakarFigures in the Sand 78Christopher Hight and Michael RobinsonThe Urban Complex: Scalar Probabilities and Urban Computation 86Anthony BurkeProject for a Mediterranean Union 92Adrian LahoudFearscapes: Caracas Postcards from a Violent City 102Eduardo KairuzEnergy Territories 108Anthony BurkeArchitecture, Contingency and Crisis: An Interview with Slavoj Žižek 112Adrian LahoudThe Very Mark of Repression: The Demolition Theatre of the Palast der Republik and the New Schloss Berlin 116Khadija Carroll LaOn Message: An Interview with Michael Chertoff 124Charles RiceBorderline Syndrome 126Ole BoumanCOUNTERPOINT Rebuilding from Below the Bottom: Haiti 128Jayne Merkel and Craig Whitaker

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Adrian Lahoud is a practicing architect and Senior Lecturer in Architecture at The University of Technology Sydney. His current research addresses issues of conflict with regards to urbanism in the Middle East.Charles Rice is an architectural historian, theorist and critic. He is currently Senior Lecturer and Associate Head of the School of Architecture at the University of Technology Sydney.Anthony Burke is Senior Lecturer and Director of the Master of Digital Architecture course at the University of Technology Sydney, and Director of Offshorestudio.net, a Sydney-based design practice specializing in design and theory related to new media and advanced computational methods.

• Editorial 5Helen CastleAbout The Guest-Editors 6Adrian Lahoud, Charles Rice and Anthony BurkeSpotlight 8Visual highlights of the issueIntroduction 14Post-Traumatic UrbanismAdrian LahoudTrauma Within the Walls: Notes Towards a Philosophy of the City 24Andrew BenjaminThe Space-Time of Pre-emption: An Interview with Brian Massumi 32Charles RiceMaking Dubai: A Process in Crisis 38Todd ReiszChanges of State: Slow Motion Trauma in the Gangetic Plains of India 44Anthony AcciavattiAfter the Event: Speculative Projects in the Aftermath 50Samantha SpurrForensic Architecture 58Eyal Weizman, Paulo Tavares, Susan Schuppli and Situ StudioThe Infrastructure of Stability 64Tarsha FinneyPost-Apocalypse Now 70Mark FisherThe Eighth Day: God Created the World in Seven Days. 74This is The Eighth DayTony ChakarFigures in the Sand 78Christopher Hight and Michael RobinsonThe Urban Complex: Scalar Probabilities and Urban Computation 86Anthony BurkeProject for a Mediterranean Union 92Adrian LahoudFearscapes: Caracas Postcards from a Violent City 102Eduardo KairuzEnergy Territories 108Anthony BurkeArchitecture, Contingency and Crisis: An Interview with Slavoj Žižek 112Adrian LahoudThe Very Mark of Repression: The Demolition Theatre of the Palast der Republik and the New Schloss Berlin 116Khadija Carroll LaOn Message: An Interview with Michael Chertoff 124Charles RiceBorderline Syndrome 126Ole BoumanCOUNTERPOINT Rebuilding from Below the Bottom: Haiti 128Jayne Merkel and Craig Whitaker

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Adrian Lahoud is a practicing architect and Senior Lecturer in Architecture at The University of Technology Sydney. His current research addresses issues of conflict with regards to urbanism in the Middle East.Charles Rice is an architectural historian, theorist and critic. He is currently Senior Lecturer and Associate Head of the School of Architecture at the University of Technology Sydney.Anthony Burke is Senior Lecturer and Director of the Master of Digital Architecture course at the University of Technology Sydney, and Director of Offshorestudio.net, a Sydney-based design practice specializing in design and theory related to new media and advanced computational methods.

• Editorial 5Helen CastleAbout The Guest-Editors 6Adrian Lahoud, Charles Rice and Anthony BurkeSpotlight 8Visual highlights of the issueIntroduction 14Post-Traumatic UrbanismAdrian LahoudTrauma Within the Walls: Notes Towards a Philosophy of the City 24Andrew BenjaminThe Space-Time of Pre-emption: An Interview with Brian Massumi 32Charles RiceMaking Dubai: A Process in Crisis 38Todd ReiszChanges of State: Slow Motion Trauma in the Gangetic Plains of India 44Anthony AcciavattiAfter the Event: Speculative Projects in the Aftermath 50Samantha SpurrForensic Architecture 58Eyal Weizman, Paulo Tavares, Susan Schuppli and Situ StudioThe Infrastructure of Stability 64Tarsha FinneyPost-Apocalypse Now 70Mark FisherThe Eighth Day: God Created the World in Seven Days. 74This is The Eighth DayTony ChakarFigures in the Sand 78Christopher Hight and Michael RobinsonThe Urban Complex: Scalar Probabilities and Urban Computation 86Anthony BurkeProject for a Mediterranean Union 92Adrian LahoudFearscapes: Caracas Postcards from a Violent City 102Eduardo KairuzEnergy Territories 108Anthony BurkeArchitecture, Contingency and Crisis: An Interview with Slavoj Žižek 112Adrian LahoudThe Very Mark of Repression: The Demolition Theatre of the Palast der Republik and the New Schloss Berlin 116Khadija Carroll LaOn Message: An Interview with Michael Chertoff 124Charles RiceBorderline Syndrome 126Ole BoumanCOUNTERPOINT Rebuilding from Below the Bottom: Haiti 128Jayne Merkel and Craig Whitaker

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