Review of Review of Violent Acts and Urban Space in Contemporary Tel Aviv: Revisioning Moments, by Tali Hatuka. Journal of Palestine Studies 43, no. 4 (2014)
“Future histories of the Israel-Palestine conflict will likely emphasize greater contiguities than ruptures between a present post-Zionist political imaginary and preceding knowledge regimes. One suspects that analyses of Israel’s spatial practices will feature prominently in such histories. And for good reason: even as current studies of the occupation have sought to lay bare the workings of a society ‘conscripted’ into a dominative spatial logic — precisely by naturalizing a relation between a violent occupation and quotidian technocracies— they repeatedly mistake critique for political triumph and so practice what Adorno once termed a species of ‘actionism’ indistinct from resignation.”