Dear All,
This Friday the roundtable will be hosting a conversation on Terrorism and Urban Space to be published in Detritos (www.revistadetritos.com)

The topic of terrorism is extremely vast, so perhaps we could focus on 3 main directions:
1) A definition of terrorism: who has the right to define what is inside or outside the scope of terrorism, and the politics behind it, etc.
2) Terrorism and the politics of exception: allowing us to connect to contemporary policy-making, population control and internal security (war on terror; war on narcotrafic; war on illegal immigration; etc).
3) Terrorism and urban space: What is the nature of the relation between terrorism and the city, between architecture and power? Focusing on notions such as 'urbicide', 'unbuilding' or 'design by destruction'.

I've attached a few short essays available online from Agamben, Stephen Graham, and Virilio, as they provide a good starting point.
Virilio, "Impure War":
http://roundtable.kein.org/files/roundtable/Virilio_ImpureWar.pdf

Agamben, “Terrorism or Tragicomedy?” and “On security and Terror”:
http://roundtable.kein.org/files/roundtable/Agamben_TerrorismorTragicome...
http://roundtable.kein.org/files/roundtable/Agamben_On securityandterror.pdf

Stephen Graham: “Postmortem city”:
http://roundtable.kein.org/files/roundtable/Stephen Graham-Postmortemcity.pdf

Friday Feb 5
At Goldsmiths room 312
11:00

See you all,
Godofredo