Urbanism of exception: camps and inhabitation

Writing on camps is dangerous as they are never constrained to the architectural scale and form, we might firstly perceive them. If examined singular objects, even in their multiple diverse morphological aspects contested historiography, seem incapable of mobilizing spatial reflection beside an aesthetic precarity, makeshift resistance or violent power control, surveillance, exclusion, death. But when imbricated with infrastructures, territories, materials, border regimes, migration policies, activism, network solidarity become active part a larger reality-making apparatus enhancing different temporal articulations without recomposition. this short contribution I want reflect what consider central tension ambivalence camp political theory urban thinking: between possibility (or impossibility) inhabitation.