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<p>This paper examines the Swakopmund investigation by Forensic Architecture (FA) as a paradigm of postdigital memory and decolonial witnessing. Drawing from the frameworks of postdigital theory, mediated discourse analysis (MDA), and semioethics, the study explores how memory and forensic evidence is not merely retrieved or represented, but actively reassembled through an entanglement of digital infrastructures, material traces, and testimonial voices. By analyzing how FA visualizes the concentration camp constructed by the German colony in Swakopmund (1904–1908), the paper conceptualizes forensic memory as a performative, co-authored, and ethically charged assemblage. The investigation highlights the role of digital platforms not as neutral repositories but as post-human agents in the re-inscription of suppressed histories and the reconfiguration of political responsibility. Through an interdisciplinary synthesis of semiotics, aesthetics, and activism, this paper foregrounds the axiological contextualizations deployed in FA’s project—contextualizations that honour alterity, resist erasure, and position forensic memory as reassembled evidence and a shared ethical encounter across human and nonhuman actors.</p>

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The Axiology of Postdigital Memory: Semioethics of Forensic Evidence in the Swakopmund Investigation

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    2025年9月5日

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  • Rania Fawzy,
  • Tariq Elyas

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This paper examines the Swakopmund investigation by Forensic Architecture (FA) as a paradigm of postdigital memory and decolonial witnessing. Drawing from the frameworks of postdigital theory, mediated discourse analysis (MDA), and semioethics, the study explores how memory and forensic evidence is not merely retrieved or represented, but actively reassembled through an entanglement of digital infrastructures, material traces, and testimonial voices. By analyzing how FA visualizes the concentration camp constructed by the German colony in Swakopmund (1904–1908), the paper conceptualizes forensic memory as a performative, co-authored, and ethically charged assemblage. The investigation highlights the role of digital platforms not as neutral repositories but as post-human agents in the re-inscription of suppressed histories and the reconfiguration of political responsibility. Through an interdisciplinary synthesis of semiotics, aesthetics, and activism, this paper foregrounds the axiological contextualizations deployed in FA’s project—contextualizations that honour alterity, resist erasure, and position forensic memory as reassembled evidence and a shared ethical encounter across human and nonhuman actors.