Post-Traumatic Urbanism

Editorial 5
Helen Castle

About The Guest-Editors 6
Adrian Lahoud, Charles Rice and Anthony Burke

Spotlight 8

Visual highlights of the issue

Introduction 14

Post-Traumatic Urbanism
Adrian Lahoud

Trauma Within the Walls: Notes Towards a Philosophy of the City 24
Andrew Benjamin

The Space-Time of Pre-emption: An Interview with Brian Massumi 32
Charles Rice

Making Dubai: A Process in Crisis 38
Todd Reisz

Changes of State: Slow Motion Trauma in the Gangetic Plains of India 44
Anthony Acciavatti

After the Event: Speculative Projects in the Aftermath 50
Samantha Spurr

Forensic Architecture 58
Eyal Weizman, Paulo Tavares, Susan Schuppli and Situ Studio

The Infrastructure of Stability 64
Tarsha Finney

Post-Apocalypse Now 70
Mark Fisher

The Eighth Day: God Created the World in Seven Days. 74
This is The Eighth Day
Tony Chakar

Figures in the Sand 78
Christopher Hight and Michael Robinson

The Urban Complex: Scalar Probabilities and Urban Computation 86
Anthony Burke

Project for a Mediterranean Union 92
Adrian Lahoud

Fearscapes: Caracas Postcards from a Violent City 102
Eduardo Kairuz

Energy Territories 108
Anthony Burke

Architecture, Contingency and Crisis: An Interview with Slavoj Žižek 112
Adrian Lahoud

The Very Mark of Repression: The Demolition Theatre of the Palast der Republik and the New Schloss Berlin 116
Khadija Carroll La

On Message: An Interview with Michael Chertoff 124
Charles Rice

Borderline Syndrome 126
Ole Bouman

COUNTERPOINT Rebuilding from Below the Bottom: Haiti 128
Jayne Merkel and Craig Whitaker