Digital authoritarianism and how to fight it | Eyal Weizman | The Big Picture S1EP11

On the frontlines of technological leaps are often people in power - governments, police, intelligence agencies and militaries - trying to use new research to advance the ways in which they operate.
But what happens when these powers aren’t used for good? Who can keep the powerful in check in a global digital age?
In this episode of The Big Picture, we sit down with architect and investigator Eyal Weizman to talk about how Israel uses urban planning to expand its control of the West Bank, and why he decided to start a crime-fighting team of architects, journalists and coders called Foreinsic Architecture to hold governments to account.
This was one of our favourite episodes so far, because of the way Eyal thinks about his craft - architecture - and the dark side that exists to every profession - especially when structures of power attempt to co-opt it to serve their own purposes.
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[@bigollameo]

Weizman's voice is damn-near hypnotic. Could listen to this brilliant guy for hours.

[@Joebonjoe]

Is He perhabs a Great Grand Cousin of Chaim Weizmann???

[@AbduljibarAbdul-oh4ho]

Free PALESTINE

[@AbduljibarAbdul-oh4ho]

IDF is apartheid forces. IDF is apartheid apartheid apartheid apartheid forces

[@nadinenadine9739]

Odf criminal murderer thieves!

[@abdulhai439]

It's not IDF. It's ITF (Israeli Terror Forces).

[@sandboxaccountz.zy.7012]

thanks for the interview, very informative

[@schonbruna]

the abuse of "jerusalem stone" by settlers leave deep scars on the landscape. palestinians are forced to quarry their land in order to give the settlers a literal facade of local origin.

[@AbduljibarAbdul-oh4ho]

Pray for Palestine Jerusalem is capital city of PALESTINE is capital city of PALESTINE is capital city of PALESTINE people

[@aastrianderson-ef4ml]

Dears Ummah is pullingFellow up And Above Sacred Banner. 🚣🦅🕌

[@bobbyhumphries1058]

Would love to know Eyal Weizmans ‘view of 15 min. cities, EVs, charging stations….etc. Fascinating conversation! Bravo, Both!

[@canantetikoglu4355]

As an architect myself, we learn a very different aspect of architecture from Eyal Weizman. I follow him and his research with curiosity and love them.

[@Snakejuce_]

Wow, fascinating information.

[@Autonomy0]

Darkly fascinating.

[@teemadarif8243]

keep ALL faith , love and fear reserved strictly for your Lord . Nothing and no one else.

[@nazifagur8391]

FREE PALESTINE! ❤

[@devorah935]

They are using ai In the uk

[@AbduljibarAbdul-oh4ho]

Pray for Palestine Jerusalem is capital city of PALESTINE

[@Linda43]

There is no Palestine

[@AbduljibarAbdul-oh4ho]

Linda.ok pray for Palestine Jerusalem is capital city of PALESTINE people.

[@AbduljibarAbdul-oh4ho]

Linda.israel is apartheid apartheid apartheid apartheid apartheid apartheid apartheid apartheid apartheid apartheid apartheid apartheid apartheid

[@AbduljibarAbdul-oh4ho]

Free PALESTINE people

[@sandboxaccountz.zy.7012]

@@Linda43 balfour decleration states 2 times palestine but not a single time israel? yet it does say its zionism that gets a state

[@sandboxaccountz.zy.7012]

youube video: american-born idf soldiers break their silence youtube video: nettanyahu speaks in private to settlers about his agenda and view of america enjoy the video if u want have a nice day every1

[@IRun4Ultra]

company that produces military technology filed a lawsuit at the Tel Aviv District Court against the Israeli Ministry of Defense and a brigadier general, claiming they stole technology secrets and used them in military training of combat units without permission. Conflict Kinetics (CK) filed a suit claiming the Chief of Paratroopers and Infantry Corps for Israeli Defense Forces, Brigadier General Dan Goldfus, and under his responsibility as an envoy of his military establishment, obtained classified information about a combat training program

[@elizabethannegrey6285]

I am certain this would have been an informative and enlightening video had I been able to listen. What on earth is the purpose of that background racket?!!!

[@nadinenadine9739]

Zion will fall

[@Linda43]

That's from the Matrix movie Sammy 😅

[@sandboxaccountz.zy.7012]

my question, hypotheticaly; if it comes to a war and these settlements are the battleground, what would be the result for soldiers attacking and soldiers defending? seeing this it seems to me they are creating bottlenecks (for crossfire) not just slums for palestinians,

[@AbduljibarAbdul-oh4ho]

Pray for Palestine Jerusalem is capital city of PALESTINE people

[@tsippyhadass897]

No slums you are wrong

[@user-hy5vj3rg9e]

"hypotheticaly; if it comes to a war and these settlements are the battleground," Very very unlikely that any war will happen inside Israel territory .

[@AbduljibarAbdul-oh4ho]

Ask Benjamin Hitler

[@AbduljibarAbdul-oh4ho]

Ask Benjamin Hitler

[@thebesttruth4659]

Free balochistan May Allah protect innocent Muslim family😔 in Pakistan Pakistan stop kidnapped and killed innocent family😔

[@dekelpolak4190]

Antisemitism lives in the foundations of human society and human nature. The human ego-the desire to enjoy at the expense of others and nature-evolves throughout history and during a person’s life. The more it grows, the more it feels an opposite force also dwelling within. That opposite force is called a “point in the heart.” Contrary to our egoistic desires that wish solely to absorb pleasures into themselves, the point in the heart is a desire that has potential to develop into a desire that loves, gives and positively connects to others. The point in the heart is also known as the seed of the soul, as we can develop it to discover our soul-the connection that underlies those very points. The realization of the potential encased in this small point of desire is the ability to rise above the human ego, where instead of detaching from one another through our growing egoism, i.e. increasingly prioritizing self-benefit over benefiting others, we instead prioritize the benefit of others and positive human connection. The point in the heart is the opposite of our egoistic nature. There are people who host only the negative egoistic force, and there are people who have both the negative egoistic force and the positive altruistic force. When both positive and negative forces coexist in us, then we become called “Jews” or “Israel” according to our inner essence. Likewise, if we solely host the negative egoistic force with no revelation yet of the point in the heart, then we are called “nations of the world” according to that essence. We underwent several stages of development throughout history. The point in the heart first surfaced throughout human society in ancient Babylon. The Babylonians who felt the inner urge to seek something deeper in life beyond the earthly egoistic desires joined Abraham, who taught a method for how to nurture the point in the heart in order to rise above the ego and positively connect. Abraham organized the Babylonians who wanted to study with him into a group, and he called this group “Israel,” which is made up of the words “Yashar Kel” (“straight to God”), i.e. people who aim themselves directly at the attainment of nature’s upper force of love, bestowal and connection, which is opposed to the force existing in human beings, the force of reception. Since Abraham’s time, the two groups-Israel and the nations of the world-have undergone much development. Some from the Israel camp left the group to pursue their natural egoistic inclinations, i.e. with an inclination to the nations of the world, while some from the nations of the world felt that they possess a special closeness and connection, which draws them to Israel. In other words, Jews are not a nationality, but they are people who host the point in the heart, which associates them with the positive force of nature, and which is opposite to the egoistic force that we are born and raised with by nature. The source of antisemitism is in the contrast and conflict between the two opposite desires of our inborn egoism and the point in the heart that can develop our ability to rise above the human ego.

[@yusufzaeem4048]

Free Palestine 🇵🇸

[@eskokauppila1327]

"...only bunkers, every hause in gaza must have bunker! 100% securatyfull life have to be to both palestinian as to jewish people

[@tabiripetrovich517]

Ypur music is too loud

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Dajjal tech

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[@Linda43]

Its All Jewish Land 🇮🇱🕎🇮🇱🕎

[@khubza8999]

If it really was, EXCLUSIVELY they would not have to spend so many weapons and capital to make it/keep it "Jewish." Read the early Zionists who were clear on the nature of the colonial enterprise.

[@Linda43]

​@@khubza8999 The Holy Torah commands us to protect and defend ourselves and our holy land of Israel from our enemies. BTW: You can't colonize your own country 😊

[@m.dthedemon4076]

Get out you settler!

[@Linda43]

​@@m.dthedemon4076The Jewish People have returned, reclaimed and re settled their ancestral homeland of Eretz Yisroel.

[@nadinenadine9739]

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[@derrickgeorge2511]

Wow, he's more brilliant than Albert Einstein, except that he doesn't stick his tongue out 😛😜