Parham Ghalamdar contributes When Gaza Becomes de_dust2 to POSTPOSTPOST, Volume II: ‘real’, the publication’s 666-page second volume. Bringing together more than sixty writers, artists and thinkers, the volume asks what it means for something to be real amid algorithmic images, unstable truth claims and ecological breakdown.
Ghalamdar’s contribution takes the language of the video game Counter-Strike as a frame for thinking about Gaza: the conversion of a lived place into a repeatable digital map, and the distance between the image of a battlefield and the lives it contains. The title’s doubled reference—Gaza and the game map de_dust2—holds digital familiarity alongside political violence, asking what happens when a place is encountered through the visual shorthand of a platform.
PUBLICATION
POSTPOSTPOST, Volume II: ‘real’
Format: 666-page publication
Contributors: 60+ writers, artists and thinkers
Contribution: When Gaza Becomes de_dust2
Publication title and volume details are from POSTPOSTPOST. The printed title and page number for the contribution are to be confirmed against the book.
Read the publication: https://postpostpost.com/publication_volume2
