Cities Without Citizens Edited by Eduardo Cadava and Aaron Levy Contributions by: Giorgio Agamben, Arakawa + Gins, Branka Arsic, Eduardo Cadava, Joan Dayan, Gans & Jelacic Architecture, Thomas Keenan, Gregg Lambert, Aaron Levy, David Lloyd, Rafi Segal Eyal Weizman Architects, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak. Slought Books, Philadelphia with the Rosenbach Museum & Library Theory Series, No. 1 Copyright © 2003 by Aaron Levy and Eduardo Cadava, Slought Foundation. All rights reserved, including the right to reproduce this book, or parts thereof, in any form, without written permission from Slought Books, a division of Slought Foundation. No part may be stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without prior written permission, except in the case of brief quotations in reviews for inclusion in a magazine, newspaper, or broadcast. This project was made possible through the Vanguard Group Foundation and the 5-County Arts Fund, a Pennsylvania Partners in the Arts program of the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, a state agency. It is funded by the citizens of Pennsylvania through an annual legislative appropriation, and administered locally by the Greater Philadelphia Cultural Alliance. The Pennsylvania Council on the Arts is supported by the National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency. Additional support for the 5-County Arts Fund is provided by the Delaware River Port Authority and PECO energy. We also acknowledge the financial support of the Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture, NY for Aaron Levy’s Kloster Indersdorf series, and the International Artists’ Studio Program in Sweden (IASPIS) for Lars Wallsten’s Crimescape series. We are grateful for the organizational and curatorial support of Bill Adair, Frank Smigiel, and Catherine Hitchens at ix Contributors the Rosenbach Museum, whose invitation prompted this project, and editorial assistants Jen Kollar, xv Introduction Joyce Sim, and Alyssa Timin at Slought Foundation. Eduardo Cadava and Aaron Levy These articles have appeared in the following publications acknowledged here: 1. Giorgio Agamben, Means without ends: notes on politics. Theory Out of Bounds, I. CITIZENS and DISCIPLINE V. 20. University of Minnesota Press, Minnesota, 2000. CONTENTS 2. Gans and Jelacic Architecture and Design, Perspecta 34: Temporary Architecture, Yale 3 Beyond Human Rights Architecture School/ MIT 2003. Giorgio Agamben Printed in the United States of America on acid-free paper by Coach House Books, Ltd. 13 Universal Hospitality Set in 9pt Arial Narrow. Design by Sinder Design & Consulting, Philadelphia Gregg Lambert For further information, http://slought.org/books/ 33 The Home of Shame SLOUGHT FOUNDATION Branka Arsic 4017 Walnut Street Philadelphia PA, 19104 55 Harlem Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data 87 Servile Law Cities without citizens / edited by Aaron Levy and Eduardo Cadava ; Joan Dayan contributions by Giorgio Agamben ... [et al.]. p. cm. -- (Theory series ; no. 1) Includes bibliographical references. ISBN 0-9714848-4-8 (pbk. : alk. paper) 1. Human rights--Exhibitions. 2. Refugees--Exhibitions. 3. Social justice--Exhibitions. 4. Marginality, Social--Exhibitions. 5. Citizenship--Exhibitions. 6. Archives--Administration--Moral and ethical aspects. 7. Historical libraries--Exhibitions--Moral and ethical aspects. 8. Historical museums--Exhibitions--Moral and ethical aspects. 9. Rosenbach Museum & Library--Exhibitions. I. Levy, Aaron, 1977- II. Cadava, Eduardo. III. Agamben, Giorgio, 1942- IV. Rosenbach Museum & Library. V. Series: Theory series (Philadelphia, Pa.) ; no. 1. JC585 .C497 2003 323--dc22 II. LIQUIDATION and SETTLEMENT 121 Ruins/Runes David Lloyd 137 The Guano of History Eduardo Cadava 167 Military Operations as Urban Planning A Panorama of the West Bank, from Giloh, 2003 [Insert] Rafi Segal Eyal Weizman Architects 201 Mobilizing Shame Thomas Keenan 221 Displacement: The Realpolitik of Utopia 234 Refugee Cities Gans & Jelacic Architecture 243 LIVING BODY Museumeum Arakawa + Gins III. DOCUMENTATION Documentation for Cities Without Citizens, an installation organized by Aaron Levy, 2003 artist-in-residence, at The Rosenbach Museum & Library, July 8 through September 28, 2003 261 Introduction to the exhibition 265 Settlement 299 Citizen 315 Discipline 333 Liquidation 349 Installation 361 Kloster Indersdorf 379 Inventory REFERENCE MATTER Giorgio Agamben teaches philosophy at the University of Verona. His publications include The Community Community (1993), Homo Sacer: Sovereign Power and Bare Life (1998), Remnants of Auschwitz: The Witness and the Archive (1998), The Man Without Content (1999), The End of the Poem (1999), and Potentialities: Collected Essays in Philosophy (1999). CONTRIBUTORS Arakawa and Madeline Gins started collaborating in 1963. Their collaborative work, The Mechanism of Meaning, was published in 1971, and a sequel to that, To Not To Die, appeared in 1987. Gins and Arakawa have exhibited jointly throughout Europe, Japan, and the United States. Their exhibition, Site of Reversible Destiny, was on view at the Guggenheim Museum Soho in December 1997 and won the College Art Association’s Exhibition of the Year award. Arakawa’s large-scale paintings are in the permanent collections of museums throughout the world. Gins’s published works include the avant- garde classic, What the President Will Say or Do!!, and an innovative art- historical novel, Helen Keller or Arakawa. Branka Arsic teaches critical theory and American literature at the University of Albany. Her book The Passive Eye was recently published by Stanford ix University Press. She is currently completing a volume on Melville’s (1997), and editor of books on the museum and on the wartime journalism of “Bartleby, The Scrivener” and has begun a project on Henry David Thoreau. Paul de Man. His current manuscript is called Live Feed: Crisis, Intervention, Media, and is about the news media and contemporary conflicts. Eduardo Cadava teaches in the English Department at Princeton University. His publications include Words of Light: Theses on the Photography of Gregg Lambert teaches at Syracuse University and is author of several History (1997), Emerson and the Climates of History (1997), Who Comes books, including Return of the Baroque: Art, Theory and Culture in the After the Subject? (co-editor with Peter Connor, and Jean-Luc Nancy; 1991). Modern Age (forthcoming), The Non-Philosophy of Gilles Deleuze (2002) and He is currently writing a collection of essays on the ethics and politics of Report to the Academy (2001). This chapter is part of a study in-progress on mourning entitled Of Mourning and a book on music and techniques of the new philosophy of Right. reproduction, memorization, and writing entitled Music on Bones. Aaron Levy is Executive Director of and a Senior Curator at Slought Joan Dayan is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the Foundation, a Philadelphia arts organization and archival resource, also University of Pennsylvania. She is the author of Fables of Mind: An Inquiry available online (http://slought.org). Since 1999, he has organized over 100 into Poe’s Fiction (1987) Haiti, History, and the Gods (1995), and numerous live events and exhibitions on contemporary art and theory. He recently articles on North American and Caribbean literature and issues of race. She edited Searching for Romberg (2001), on artist Osvaldo Romberg, Untitled is currently completing Held in the Body of the State and The Law is a White (After Cinema) (2002), on photography after cinema, and, with Jean-Michel Dog, a series of essays on law and spiritual belief. Rabaté, Of the Diagram: The Work of Marjorie Welish (2003). He curated the exhibition “Cities without Citizens” at the Rosenbach Museum as their 2003 Deborah Gans and Matthew Jelacic are partners in the firm Gans & Jelacic artist-in-residence. Architecture and Design. Their architectural, urban and industrial design projects and competitions have been exhibited at RIBA, London, IFA, Paris, David Lloyd is Professor of English at University of Southern California. He the Van Alen Institute, New York City, and Slought Foundation, Philadelphia. is the author of several books, including Nationalism and Minor Literature: In 1999 Gans & Jelacic won an international competition to house refugees James Clarence Mangan and the Emergence of Irish Culture Nationalism in the Balkans hosted by Architecture for Humanity, WarChild, USAID and (1987), Anomalous States: Irish Writing and the Post-Colonial Moment UNHCR. Deborah Gans is the author of The Le Corbusier Guide (1987) and (1993), Culture and the State, with Paul Thomas (1997), The Politics of the editor of The Organic Approach (2002). Both Gans and Jelacic are Culture in the Shadow of Capital, edited with Lisa Lowe (1997), and Ireland Professors in architecture at Pratt Institute in New York. after History (2000). Thomas Keenan teaches media theory, literature, and human rights at Bard Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak is the Avalon Foundation Professor in the College, where he is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature and Humanities and presently the director of The Center for Comparative directs the Human Rights Project. He is author of Fables of Responsibility Literature and Society at Columbia University. She is the author of In Other x xi Worlds: Essays in Cultural Politics (1988), The Post-Colonial Critic: Interviews, Strategies, Dialogues (1990), Outside in