Event details
Feb
20
Princeton Palestinian Studies Colloquium: "Palestinian Automata", Ali H. Musleh
Since 2005, Gaza has been enclosed within a complex of drones, robotic weapons, and artificial intelligences that convert the Palestinian lifeworld into endless streams of data that drive Israeli siege warfare. This lecture maps this ecology of technics, its logics, and shifting diagrams of operation which have been modulated and intensified after October 2023 to carry out a semi-automated campaign of annihilation at a scale and pace unmatched in 21st Century warfare.
Ali H. Musleh is the Ibrahim Abu-Lughod Postdoctoral Fellow at the Columbia University Center for Palestine Studies. His research explores how weapon technologies shape the worlds of war we inhabit. With a focus on Palestine, his first book manuscript examines the movement of settler colonialism into the robotic age of war.
Ali H. Musleh is the Ibrahim Abu-Lughod Postdoctoral Fellow at the Columbia University Center for Palestine Studies. His research explores how weapon technologies shape the worlds of war we inhabit. With a focus on Palestine, his first book manuscript examines the movement of settler colonialism into the robotic age of war.
Speakers
Ali Musleh
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Date
February 20, 2025Time
4:30 p.m.Location
McCosh Hall, 28Audience
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Department of Near Eastern Studies
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Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies
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