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By (author) Fuller Matthew; By (author) Weizman Eyal Short description/annotation:A new field of counter-investigation across journalism, human rights, art and lawDescription:Today, artists are engaged in investigation. They probe corruption, state violence, environmental destruction and repressive technologies. At the same time, fields not usually associated with aesthetics make powerful use of it. Journalists and legal professionals pore over open source videos and satellite imagery to undertake visual investigations. This combination of diverse fields is what the authors call “investigative aesthetics”: mobilising sensibilities often associated with art, architecture and other such practices to find new ways of speaking truth to power.This book draws on theories of knowledge, ecology and technology, evaluates the methods of citizen counter-forensics, micro-history and art, and examines radical practices such as those of Wikileaks, Bellingcat, and Forensic Architecture. Investigative Aesthetics takes place in the studio and the laboratory, the courtroom and the gallery, online and in the streets, as it strives towards the construction of a new ”common sensing”.The book is an inspiring introduction to a new field that brings together investigation and aesthetics to change how we understand and confront power today.To Nour Abuzaid for your brilliance, perseverance, and unshaken belief in the liberation of Palestine.Review quote:The most astonishing book on architecture that I have read in years.Review quote:A masterpiece of political analysis.Review quote:Weizman boldly attempts to create an entirely new method toconceptualize the relationship between surfaces, movement, and the toolsof warReview quote:Eyal Weizman”s work has become an indispensable source of both insight and guidance in these difficult timesReview quote:Weizman continues to offer daring social and political commentary,questioning taken-for-granted structures and processes that perpetuateoppression and violenceReview quote:A fascinating treatise on how our political world functions today and how we might seek to interrupt it.Review quote:Expansive … [Fuller and Weizman] explore sense and sense-making in its fullest political terms: understanding the systemic forces of capitalism as well as an individual”s sense of morality.Review quote:Sharp … [Investigative Aesthetics] is invaluable as a hyper-aesthetic object itself.Review quote:Aesthetics is a battleground, a contested space; Investigative Aesthetics is part battle-plan or tactical guide and, more fundamentally, part user”s manual for surviving this beautiful and terrifying world.Review quote:An undeviating announcement of the subversive potential of contemporary aesthetic practices.Biographical note:Matthew Fuller is an author and Professor of Cultural Studies at the Department of Media and Communications, at Goldsmiths, University of London. He is known for his writings in media theory, software studies, critical theory and cultural studies.He is the author of Media Ecologies, and with Andrew Goffey, Evil Media. Eyal Weizman directs the Centre for Research Architecture and the international investigative project, Forensic Architecture. He is the author of Hollow Land, The Least of All Possible Evils, and Forensic Architecture. After a hugely acclaimed exhibition at the ICA, Forensic Architecture was shortlisted for the 2018 Turner Prize. They have exhibited around the world, and in 2019, their work was included in the Whitney Biennial.Promotional headline:A new field of counter-investigation across journalism, human rights, art and la