Earlier this week, the February issue of e-flux journal went online, including my essay “Improbable Potentialities.” Towards the end of the text, I briefly discuss Netanyahu’s plan for a Dubai-style redevelopment of Gaza, minus its inhabitants; this had been made public in the spring of 2024, complete with spectacular “artist’s impressions.” Pretty much simultaneously with the issue going live, Trump gave a press conference in which he announced that the US would take over Gaza, via its military, expel the Palestinian population, and develop the appropriated land into desirable “property.”
We live through a period in which every attempt to theorize the present, to articulate its contradictions and effect some sort of dialectical critique, will usually already be outdated when published—at least in some of its details. There comes a point when one has to stop updating and hope that some of the analysis and some of the propositions can still be relevant and make a difference, somehow, somewhat, circuitously.
Oh, and as I’m typing:
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