Prof. Miriyam Aouragh’s Palestine Online and other works featured in Concreta

Prof. Miriyam Aouragh‘s Palestine Online and other writings on the Middle East have been featured in the latest volume of Concreta, a widely-read, peer-reviewed Spanish periodical on art, design and tech.

The aim of the publication is to help elaborate a theoretical frame for research into the image —inside and outside of academia— with a deeper focus on the photographic image and art history, grounded in all the disciplines of knowledge that understand the image as a place of friction and anxiety, as a structure of meaning and a dialectical force field.

The latest volume, “Concreta 23, La composición activa de la presencia” (“The active composition of presence”), is a “a zone of manufacture and circulation of specific logistical questions and maneuvers in the face of extractivist regimes of capture and control of data, bodies and materials, which strengthen and accentuate categories of analysis that are very ill-suited to inhabit in another way the complexity of what there is or could be if we organized ourselves in radically different ways.”

Aouragh’s academic oeuvre, beginning with her 2011 monograph/book Palestine Online, has been heavily featured in the volume as her work offers a historiography of  the deployment of the internet in Palestine and in the context of technology format, software, and temporality.

Access Concreta 23 here.

And explore Aouragh’s notable writings here.

Photo by Syd Wachs on Unsplash