Genocidios : Una lectura forense

In May 2024, the Israeli Air Force and Intelligence Division received the 2024 Israel Defense Award for the success of its "target factory," which recognized the innovative use of "advanced algorithms and artificial intelligence" to identify human targets. Israel's genocide in Gaza is the first in history perpetrated with the help of AI. But those investigating it also have access to the most advanced tools. With these, following methodologies such as forensic architecture, they document the disproportionate violence. Not only in present-day Gaza, but in other territories and other eras, throughout the world. As Eyal Weizman reminds us, before the extermination of six million people during World War II, Germany carried out a first genocide in Namibia in the first decade of the 20th century. From the massacres of Armenians by Turkish troops during the following decade, to the genocide of the Rohingya minority in 21st-century Burma, and including Rwanda, attempts to eliminate entire populations have been part of the colonial logic. This collective work, with a foreword and edited by Júlia Nueno Guitart—a member of the team at the prestigious research agency Forensic Architecture—includes a range of contributions that analyze this history using the latest technologies. Its intention is political: to redefine what we understand by genocide in light of colonial processes and to expand international law based on the case of Gaza. To this end, it brings together authoritative voices such as Rabea Eghbariah, Joshua Abramson, Dima Srouji, Grégoire Chamayou, and Marwa Fatatfa. In addition to other graphic essays, it includes the visual research project "Cartography of a Genocide," published for the first time in Spanish.