Since 2005, Gaza has been enclosed within a complex of drones, robotic weapons, and artificial intelligences that convert the Palestinian lifeworld into endless streams of data that drive Israeli siege warfare. This lecture maps this ecology of technics, its logics, and shifting diagrams of operation which have been modulated and intensified after October 2023 to carry out a semi-automated campaign of annihilation at a scale and pace unmatched in 21st Century warfare.

Ali H. Musleh is the Ibrahim Abu-Lughod Postdoctoral Fellow at the Columbia University Center for Palestine Studies. His research explores how weapon technologies shape the worlds of war we inhabit. With a focus on Palestine, his first book manuscript examines the movement of settler colonialism into the robotic age of war.

Organized by the Princeton Palestine Studies Colloquium. For more info, click here.

VENUE
McCosh 28
Princeton University

DATE
Feb 20, 2025
4:30 pm – 6:00 pm