Wietske Maas & Matteo Pasquinelli, “The City Devouring Itself: Urbanibalism in Times of World Wars, Insurgent Communes and Biopolitical Sieges”, in: J. Seijdel and L. Melis (eds), Open #18: 2030 - War Zone Amsterdam, Rotterdam: NAi Publishers, 2009
Dutch WWII recipe suggestions for use of tulip bulbs (courtesy of Verzetsmuseum, Amsterdam)
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‘The contemporary social reality of Amsterdam, in which the debates on some social issues exhibit very little creative development, can be presented in a radically different light through the fictitious element of a war in Amsterdam 2030. Using Amsterdam as a test case, this issue of Open is about questions and problems facing contemporary Western cities in general: fear and safety, privacy and biopolitics, control and militarization, globalization and virtualization, commercialization and neoliberalism. Brigitte van der Sande, curator of the art project ‘2030 War Zone Amsterdam’, was guest-editor.
With contributions by Brigitte van der Sande, Willem Schinkel, Dirk van Weelden , Stephen Graham, Frank Furedi, John Armitage, Tom McCarthy, Wietske Maas & Matteo Pasquinelli, Eyal Weizman, Gert Jan Kocken en het Israëlische duo Adi Kaplan & Shahar Carmel.
