I’ve reviewed Eyal Weizman’s book Ungrounding: The Architecture of Genocide for the Journal of Visual Culture.
Screen grabs from ‘Tunnel raid hits Israeli military outpost, with Jon Elmer’, The Electronic Intifada, October 3, 2025, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rHLIOTK3GSs accessed September 25, 2026.
The book is an extraordinary achievement. I think, however, that its foundational methodology of forensic architecture has some limitations with respect to decolonization. I therefore follow my summary of Weizman’s erudite contribution to evidentiary anti-Zionist resistance with a comradely critique of the book’s methodology.
In brief, I argue that Weizman’s effective appropriation of colonial aesthetics and epistemologies for anti-colonial ends leaves unanswered the question of what kinds of aesthetics and epistemologies can do the work of replenishment that decolonization will require. I propose that answers to that question can only be found by following figures such as the resistance fighters shown in the images above and below into the last places in Palestine that remain unoccupied: the tunnels under Gaza.
The review is paywalled, but you can read a pdf of the accepted version here.
