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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