Maayan Amir
Biographic Data
| ID | 3860325 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Maayan Amir |
| GIVEN NAMES | Maayan |
| FAMILY NAME | Amir |
| SIGNATURE | AMIR M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Ben-Gurion University of the Negev |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9525-9311 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Operative Creativity
This essay proposes operative creativity as a conceptual and artistic response to the shifting roles of images in the age of algorithmic perception. Departing from Harun Farocki’s seminal artwork Eye/Machine, which first introduced the operative image as functioning not to represent but to activate within machinic processes, it traces the transformation of images from representational devices to machinic agents embedded in systems of simulation a…
Visual lawfare
While chemical attacks are rare and deemed an illegitimate form of warfare, the attempt to exploit international law in order to license military action is an eerily common custom. The practice of deploying a legal system to promote military objectives is now widely known as lawfare. In this article, the author focuses on what she calls visual lawfare, namely the weaponization of visual documentation used to provide evidence in order to either pr…
The Visual Side of Privacy
In Eichmann in Jerusalem, Hannah Arendt illustrates the "lesser of two evils" principle by relating the peculiar story of a state archive of photographs of women in swimwear. During the Nazi period, she writes, to receive a marriage license Czech women applying to marry German soldiers were required to furnish a photograph of themselves dressed in swimwear. Taking its cue from this historic example, this study traces the evolution of a phenomenon…
Exterritory Project
Extraterritorialities in Occupied Worlds
The concept of extraterritoriality designates certain relationships between space, law, and representation. This collection of essays explores contemporary manifestations of extraterritoriality and the diverse ways in which the concept has been put to use in various disciplines. Some of the essays were written especially for this volume; others are brought here together for the first time. The inquiry into extraterritoriality found in these essay…
The Visual Side of Privacy
In Eichmann in Jerusalem, Hannah Arendt illustrates the "lesser of two evils" principle by relating the peculiar story of a state archive of photographs of women in swimwear. During the Nazi period, she writes, to receive a marriage license Czech women applying to marry German soldiers were required to furnish a photograph of themselves dressed in swimwear. Taking its cue from this historic example, this study traces the evolution of a phenomenon…
Exterritory Project
The Visual Side of Privacy
In Eichmann in Jerusalem, Hannah Arendt illustrates the "lesser of two evils" principle by relating the peculiar story of a state archive of photographs of women in swimwear. During the Nazi period, she writes, to receive a marriage license Czech women applying to marry German soldiers were required to furnish a photograph of themselves dressed in swimwear. Taking its cue from this historic example, this study traces the evolution of a phenomenon…
Visual lawfare
While chemical attacks are rare and deemed an illegitimate form of warfare, the attempt to exploit international law in order to license military action is an eerily common custom. The practice of deploying a legal system to promote military objectives is now widely known as lawfare. In this article, the author focuses on what she calls visual lawfare, namely the weaponization of visual documentation used to provide evidence in order to either pr…
Operative Creativity
This essay proposes operative creativity as a conceptual and artistic response to the shifting roles of images in the age of algorithmic perception. Departing from Harun Farocki’s seminal artwork Eye/Machine, which first introduced the operative image as functioning not to represent but to activate within machinic processes, it traces the transformation of images from representational devices to machinic agents embedded in systems of simulation a…
Extraterritorialities in Occupied Worlds
The concept of extraterritoriality designates certain relationships between space, law, and representation. This collection of essays explores contemporary manifestations of extraterritoriality and the diverse ways in which the concept has been put to use in various disciplines. Some of the essays were written especially for this volume; others are brought here together for the first time. The inquiry into extraterritoriality found in these essay…
Computer Science (4 works) · Political science (3 works) · Art (2 works) · Engineering (2 works) · Geographies of human-animal interactions (2 works) · History (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Law in Society and Culture (2 works) · License (2 works) · Sociology (2 works)