Air by Peter Adey5/21/2023 ![]() The conceit then is that evacuation is not simply bad, but that we must first wrestle and recover evacuation from its wider lexicon. ![]() In this paper I want to show how evacuation – the arts, logics, rationalities and technologies – the complex geographies of moving people out of the way - goes to the heart of how societies and states have learnt how to protect, but, to go further than that, it has also been a key way in which they have killed, persecuted, punished and separated peoples from their property, rights and freedoms. This, in the context of a Nazi geopolitics of territorial annexation, mass population movements, settlement planning and the economies of labour supply, really meant deportation, displacement and killing (sometimes by movement itself). In observing Adolf Eichmann’s disturbing rationalisations of the Nazi killing machine through the administration of ideas, bodies, practices, property and, ultimately, life, Hannah Arendt noticed the curious yet crucial slippage of terms perpetuated by the bureaucratisation of mobility, often named “Evacuation”. Ian Gulland Lecture Theatre Goldsmiths Thursday 6th March 5.00-7.00pm (Bad) Evacuation: moving, naming, killing ![]() ![]() Professor Peter Adey (Royal Holloway, University of London) Aesthetic Objectivity: Department of Visual Cultures Public Programme Spring 2014 ![]()
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