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And soon, the air between the data points was stale
What function does the racialised Palestinian hold in Israeli techno-speak and Israeli claims to territory? More broadly, what place do racialised targets of war hold in technological ‘advancements’ in war making. This intervention draws on my ethnographic research into the design and marketing of technological shifts in Israeli and European weapons industries. Drawing on philosophies of blackness (Wynter; Warren) I address how the Palestinian is expressed through Israeli war technologies as equipment upon which to build white supremacy, modernity and settler-colonialism. In this intervention I speak from the position of different technologies. In speaking from the position of the object I respond to Katherine McKittrick’s observations of what is excluded from archives of violence against racialised bodies, communities and land. I speak to emotions, stories and connections that are in excess to the object’s ability to wage violence. It is through these spaces and writing from these spaces that I explore how expressions of emotion and care through black philosophies and critiques of modernity might lead to compassion.
