Machines with Ali Musleh and Caitlin Blanchfield
Friday, 10 Nov 2023, 12pm

Join the Post-Conflict Cities Lab and GSAPP MS and PhD Students for a talk with Ali Musleh (Center for Palestine Studies) and Caitlin Blanchfield (GSAPP).

Ali Musleh is the Ibrahim Abu-Lughod post-doctoral fellow at the Center for Palestine Studies at Columbia University. He is a political theorist who studies settler colonial warfare, arms and automation. Ali is currently working on his first book project, To What Abyss Does This Robot Take the Earth? Using his dual background in design and political theory, he focuses on Israel's design, development and deployment of drones, autonomous weapons and artificial intelligence, treating them as technological processes of managing and differentiating forms of life. Read more. 

Caitlin Blanchfield is a Doctoral Candidate in Architecture at Columbia GSAPP, where she also received an M.S. in Critical, Curatorial, and Conceptual Practices in Architecture. Caitlin is a founding editor of the Avery Review, and her recent book Modern Management Methods: Architecture, Historical Value, and the Electromagnetic Image, co-authored with Farzin Lotfi-Jam, was published by Columbia Books on Architecture and the City in 2019. Read more. 

Please note that in-person attendance is limited to GSAPP affiliates and that seating is first come, first served. Other CUID holders and members of the public can attend via Zoom.