[Commlist] “JustEvidence” - World Records, Volume 9 published

The introduction and initial batch of articles from Volume 9 of World 
Records, titled “Just Evidence”, has been published.

https://worldrecordsjournal.org/category/volume-9/


Just Evidence signals evidence’s enduring, and perhaps even renewed, 
capacity to provide access to standing, legibility, and accountability. 
It expresses a faith in evidence—a belief that truth is on the side of 
justice. On the other hand, just evidence underscores evidence’s 
perpetual ambiguity and inadequacy. Absent enforcement mechanisms, 
institutional power, or political momentum, what we are left with is 
precisely that: just evidence.

“When the powerful deny, obfuscate, and fabricate facts, documentary 
evidence suggests that truth can be seen, measured, proven—and that 
proof will lead to accountability and justice. But, in their pursuit of 
accountability, forensic practices often draw authority from the very 
institutions they seek to challenge: the law, the police, the colonial 
state, the tech oligarchy. They bring renewed urgency to an old 
conundrum: Can the master’s tools dismantle the master’s house? Can 
technologies of prosecution and incrimination work against state and 
corporate power? How can evidentiary practices chart trajectories toward 
abolitionist and decolonial horizons?”

More articles to follow in the coming weeks!

Just Evidence — Sasha Crawford-Holland, Patrick Brian Smith, and 
LaCharles Ward
They Are Shooting at Our Shadows: The Al-Haq Forensic Architecture 
Investigation Unit and Rachel Nelson (Visualizing Abolition) in 
conversation with Laliv Melamed and P. Rangan
No Justice, No Relief — Brett Story
Tongueless Whispers and Recited Choreographies — Yasmina Price
A Change of Register (Notes on Man number 4) — Miranda Pennell
Countering Forensic Violence: Philip Scheffner’s Revision — Başak Ertür 
and Alisa Lebow
The End of Archaeology as We Know It — Sasha Crawford-Holland with Kisha 
Supernant
At the Center of a Thing You’re Absent From — Emma Ben Ayoun with Jordan 
Lord
Cell Formation, Disinformation — Rose Rowson
Striking Evidence — Kelli Moore
Afterword \ Toward Proof, Toward Liberation — LaCharles Ward

Edited by Sasha Crawford-Holland, Patrick Brian Smith, and LaCharles Ward.


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