Fictioning Great War Island

This chapter looks at Great War Island, a river island located in Belgrade, Serbia. The island’s name comes from its role as the historical site from which to stage attacks on the city, yet the warfare the island represents in popular imagination is ongoing: over ecological preservation, capital investment in the city, and as a potential site for sourcing fresh water. Rather than pursue the seeming opposition between ecology and capital, the chapter investigates the island through the notions of fiction (inherent in Gilles Deleuze’s ‘Desert Islands’) and ‘fictioning’ (as developed by David Burrows and Simon O’Sullivan) to ask what it might mean to speak of a queer institution of second origins of the world – and what role architecture assumes in the institution of worlds as well as in their un-institution.

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