Weizman, Eyal. Hollow Land: Israel’s Architecture of Occupation. Verso Books, 2007.

Elden, Stuart. “Secure the Volume: Vertical Geographies and the Depth of Power.” Political Geography 34 (2013): 35–51.

These two texts articulate territory as volumetric and spatial, as opposed to flat or maplike. Weizman’s text in particular recounts elements of Israeli colonization through this lens, helping me understand this colonial history through a spatial and architectural perspective.

Abu El Haj, Nadia. “Embracing Destruction,” in Rights of Future Generations: Propositions. Hatje Cantz, 2022.

This text explicates the concept of “hollow land” in relation to archaeology and history, which I plan to expand on this coming semester.

Srouji, Dima. “Depth Unknown: Archaeology of Resistance.” The Architectural Review. September 3, 2024.

This text also addresses the archaeological perspective in Palestine, this time through a collaged video and installation piece. Srouji’s artistic methods are deeply inspiring to me.

Parikka, Jussi. Living Surfaces: Images, Plants, and Environments of Media. MIT Press, 2024.

This book examines the relationship between media and plants, including remote sensing and thinking through images as surfaces, all of which I want to develop an essay around this coming semester.

Downey, A. (2023). “The Algorithmic Apparatus of Neocolonialism: Counter-Operational Practices and the Future of Aerial Surveillance.” In Bratchford, G., Zuev, D. (eds), Vision and Verticality: Social Visualities. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-39884-1_9

This article helped me think through ideas of future and prediction attached to algorithmic models in warfare; what type of future are these systems instantiating?

Badran, Rayya, ed. Dignified Life: Outliving Impossible Ecologies. The Mosaic Rooms, 2025.

This collection of texts, artworks, and images by various authors is a huge inspiration for my project, broadening my concepts of ecology, resistance, and modes of representation.

Forensic Architecture. “A Spatial Analysis of the Israeli Military’s Conduct in Gaza since October 2023.” October 15, 2024.

This report details some of the methods Forensic Architecture uses, presenting their conclusions as maps and diagrams in ways that I can also integrate into my own work.