Table of Contents

1 The Humanitarian Present 1

665 6

Lesser Evildoers 8

Pangloss's Law 10

Calculating Machines for the Reduction of Evil 15

An Ethical Governor 17

War of the Mad 19

Bulls and Spiders 21

2 Arendt in Ethiopia 27

On Omelettes and Eggs 35

The Politics of Compassion 37

Challenging Third Worldism 39

Humanitarian Optics 42

The Testimony of the Dead 45

Armies of Compassion 49

Minima Moralia 53

Aid Archipelago 56

Polis and the Police 58

3 The Best of All Possible Walls 65

Material Proportionality 73

Wallfare 80

Milgram in Gaza 86

A Legislative Attack 90

Anarchists Against the Law 92

4 Forensic Architecture: Only the Criminal Can Solve the Crime 99

Before the Forum 103

Speaking Bones 108

The Era of Forensics 112

Dying to Speak 113

The Forensics of Forensics 115

Forensic Fetishism 126

The Thirtieth Civilian 129

The Design of Ruins 133

The Devil's Advocate 134

Epilogue: The Destruction of Destruction 139

Acknowledgements 163

Notes 167

Index 183