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Duration: 2h04

Eyal Weizman, an Israeli-British architect and professor at Goldsmiths, University of London, is the founder and director of the research collective Forensic Architecture. In this interview, we recount the origins, discuss the methodology and explain the evolution of Forensic Architecture, both the agency and the discipline, until the recent publication of A Cartography of Genocide.

We also retrace the longstanding involvement of the collective with the Palestinian cause, shed light on troubling resonances between the ongoing Israeli campaign in Gaza and genocidal precedents in Namibia and Guatemala, and examine the contemporary backlash against movements of solidarity with Palestine.

CHAPTERS:

00:00:00 – Introduction to Genocidal Intent

00:05:47 - (Chap.1) Origins of Forensic Architecture : Emergent Coutercartography of Palestine  

00:23:45 -.(Chap.2) Between humanism and science : Testimonies reconsidered 

00:37:17 - (Chap.3) Displacing Law : Socialized evidence production 

00:48:04 - (Chap.4) “A cartography of genocide” : Medics as new witnesses

01:04:12 - (Chap.5) Patterns : Facts on the grounds and guilty minds 

01:15:02 - (Chap.6) Genocidal resonnances : Guatemala and Namibia 

01:23:54 - (Chap.7) “Conditions of life” : Calculus as a mode of control

01:34:21 - (Chap.8) Lebensraum : Deployment of the zionist project 

01:51:51 - (Chap.9) Continuous Nakba : Failed depolitization and protracted eradication

02:03:52 - (Chap.10) Reception since October 2023 : Escalation of the pushback

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This episode addresses Forensic Architecture, Gaza, Palestine and international law.

Interviewed by Michel Feher

Conducted on January 26, 2025

Directed by Thierry Corroyer

Produced by Florence Mention and Aurélie Windels

Dossier: Thomas Gmuer

Visual Research : Sophie Liner

Music by Laz Lo, Eeryskies, Damiens Simons

Voice : Amanda Bay

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Duration: 1h52

Thea Riofrancos is an Associate Professor of Political Science at Providence College and a Strategic Co-Director of the Climate and Community Institute. Her research focuses on resource extraction, climate change, the global lithium sector, green technologies, and the Latin American left. She is the author of Extraction: The Frontiers of Green Capitalism and Resource Radicals: From Petro-Nationalism to Post-Extractivism in Ecuador, and the coauthor of A Planet to Win: Why We Need a Green New Deal.

In our conversation, Thea shows how renewable and fossil extractivism is not merely a localized operation of resource removal, but an enduring political and economic regime. She highlights the growing fusion of climate goals, industrial imperatives, and geopolitical strategies. It marks a new phase of green capitalism that displaces the failures of market-based mechanisms with tensions of its own.

This interview reframes contemporary resource politics within the long arc of extractive geoeconomics, from the oil crisis to Biden’s green policies and Trump 2.0.

CHAPTERS:

00:00:00 – Introduction to Extractivism, green and brown

00:05:58 - (Chap.1) What is extractivism?

00:15:27 - (Chap.2) Green and brown mining

00:24:30 - (Chap.3) The Security-Sustainability nexus

00:40:10 - (Chap.4) Green Capitalism

01:03:31 - (Chap.5) History of Geoeconomics

01:15:25 - (Chap.6) Ecomodernism vs Degrowth

01:23:39 - (Chap.7) Trumps’s Energy Emergency

01:28:28 - (Chap.8) Insecurity and unsustainability under Trump 2.0

01:33:10 - (Chap.9) Critical Mineral Deals from Ukraine to Rwanda

01:40:20 - (Chap.10) From Opportunistic Greening to Fossil Fascism

Interviewed by Marius Bickhardt

Directed by Sam Jones

Editing by Thierry Corroyer

Produced by Vladimir Gurewich

Dossier : Marius Bickhardt

Visual Reasearch : Sophie Liner

Music by Laz Lo, Eeryskies, Damiens Simons

Voice : Amanda Bay

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Duration: 1h57

Quinn Slobodian is a professor of history at Boston University and a specialist in neoliberal thought. He is the author of Globalists.The End of Empire and the Birth of Neoliberalism, Crack-Up Capitalism, Market radicals and the Dream of a World Without Democracy, and Hayek’s Bastards. Race, Gold, IQ, and the Capitalism of the Far Right.

Diagram[me]s invited him to trace the genealogy of trumpism. Rather than portraying Trump as a champion of a populist break with the neoliberalism of the late 20th century, Slobodian depicts him as a beneficiary of that doctrine’s transformations. He shows how the libertarian wing of the neoliberal movement came to stake the future of economic liberalism on curbing migration flows, rehabilitating race-based IQ theories, and strengthening the executive branch at the expense of the rule of law.

He also shows how the reconfiguration of financial capitalism after the 2008 crisis first allowed tech entrepreneurs to amass enormous fortunes, and then encouraged them to seize the levers of political power.

CHAPTERS:

00:00:00 – Introduction to Late Neoliberalism

00:05:16 - (Chap.1) The Trump administration: Family Portrait

00:16:41 - (Chap.2) The neoliberals’ post-cold war blues

00:31:11 - (Chap.3) Human capital management: nativism, IQ, natalism

00:51:23 - (Chap.4) Movement of goods: The praise for tariffs 

01:07:41 - (Chap.5) On warding off inflation: Gold and Cryptocurrencies

01:32:42 - (Chap.6) From legislative encasement to executive privilege

01:40:24 - (Chap.7) Nostalgia and technofuturism

01:50:19 - (Chap.8) Wrestling as allegory

Interview with Michel Feher

Conducted on February 1st, 2025

Directed by: Thierry Corroyer

Produced by: Florence Mention and Aurélie Windels

Visual research: Sophie Liner

Music: Laz Lo and Boni (Introduction); Laz Lo, Eeryskies and Damiens Simons (Credits theme)

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Hello and welcome to Diagrammes, an independent bilingual media based in Paris and New York. Because resisting the world’s rightward drift requires us to take the measure of it, Diagram[me]s offers every three weeks, in free access, one or more in-depth interviews with scholars, journalists, and activists.

The world is moving rightwards at a staggering pace. Leading this race to the worst is a breed of rulers who make their countries great again by cracking down on their own cities, brutalizing their neighbors and licensing their favorite oligarchs to plunder the planet. 

Taken alone, however, the ways of a few strong men and their cronies cannot fully explain our current trajectory. Other enablers include moderate politicians ready to reach across any aisle, reasonable experts who confuse impartiality with complacency, and large constituencies eagerly absorbing the phobias stoked by the entrepreneurs of resentment.To hinder these global trends, the first task at hand is to get a better understanding of them, even as the spaces devoted to the critique of common sense are rapidly being defunded or closed. Diagrams thus seeks to join a resilient network of sites still attempting to diagnose our contemporary condition – one where freedoms are corroded in the name of liberty and inequalities are celebrated in the name of the people.

With a new episode released every three weeks, Diagrams features in-depth interviews with scholars, journalists and activists. Our aim is to showcase research that illuminates the present and to gain a more lucid perspective on the fault lines of our brave new world.

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