In his poem Phosphorus, Bread, Coffee (2009), published in As-Safir, Hilal Chouman writes: “I discovered that my skin is not white. I became certain of this when I saw the white spots [of phosphorus] trickle through my skin... The fire reached my bones. Whiteness consumed me.” This lecture confronts the joint onslaught of military and white supremacy on southern Lebanon as a stark manifestation of the global expansionist project aimed at dominating the contemporary night. Specifically, it reveals how farmers and shepherds, recognizing the mounting conflict between light and life in their homeland, aimed their spades at their oppressors and wielded darkness into their arsenal of life-making tools. For even their strongest walls had been destroyed, and with them the delusion that architecture, in its traditional sites and forms, could protect from the enemy’s weapons, systems, and environments. By examining how they learned to carve liberated spaces from their fertile nights, this lecture aims to foreground a new practice of darkness, a new alliance with the night, one that molts architecture’s colonial imprints by confronting the discipline from its shadows.