Re: nettime A miniature city waiting for attack (military urbanism)
Anyone interested in more Isr/Pal/global military urbanism questions (as per Brian Holmes's question, below), check out Bryan Finoki's recent news-grabs on Archinect: http://archinect.com/news/article.php?id=P23879_0_24_0_C http://archinect.com/news/article.php?id=P23708_0_24_0_C http://archinect.com/news/article.php?id=P23454_0_24_0_C And BLDGBLOG, of course, circles through that topic quite frequently... GM # distributed via nettime: no commercial use without permission # nettime is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: [EMAIL PROTECTED] and info nettime-l in the msg body # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nettime@bbs.thing.net
Re: nettime A miniature city waiting for attack (military urbanism)
One night on the road when the campground at lovely Morro Rock near San Luis Obispo was full, I found myself in an odd, impersonal sort of campsite a few miles further down the interstate, where to my surprise (and I don't really know what must have gone through my French companion's mind) we were awakened in the middle of the night by gunshots, explosions, the ra-tat-tat and boom-boom-boom of warfare in peaceful 1990s California. Now at last I know exactly where this came from. Though I obviously had immediately figured out that these were army exercises, or at least, after the first few minutes! Michael H Goldhaber wrote: Three small buildings! A joke! The danger is that these nitwits will take their wargames there to be a realistic exercise and plunge the world into future Iraqs. We only aid that by taking this seriously. Unfortunately those nitwits do take their games seriously and they have a lot of help from the Israelis after the invasions of Jenine and Nablus -- I watched videos gathered by Eyal Weisman where an Israeli officer explained, in a kind of Derridean way, that everything has to do with how you interpret a city. You can interpret the walls, for instance, as solid, or as permeable- In Nablus they intererpreted them as permeable, bored systematically through them, and were able to attack and destroy the Palestinian resistance from behind. They seem to have applied a swarming doctrine, gathering around the city, pulsing inward, retreating, and then pulsing again from other directions. It is a commonplace to say that the Israelis have replaced the British as the chief purveyors of urban battle strategy, but I wonder if anyone on the list has good bibliography on that subject. best, Brian # distributed via nettime: no commercial use without permission # nettime is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: [EMAIL PROTECTED] and info nettime-l in the msg body # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nettime@bbs.thing.net
Re: nettime A miniature city waiting for attack (military urbanism)
On Aug 26, 2005, at 4:52 PM, Geoff Manaugh wrote: - Fast set-up and disassembly... - Various building sites configurations... [and] - Changeable interior room configurations Many people find the subject of animal slaughter to be very unpleasant and prefer not to know the details of what goes on inside a slaughterhouse. In their turn, most slaughterhouses are secretive to avoid controversy. As such, in the West, the connection between packaged meat products in the supermarket and the live animals they are derived from is obscured. Nevertheless, the majority of people in the West eat meat every day, so slaughterhouses are required to efficiently provide meat products on an industrial scale. At the same time, most countries have laws and regulations that control the slaughter of animals, both for human consumption and for other purposes. Therefore, the operation of slaughterhouses is usually independently monitored by government agencies, most especially to ensure that standards of hygiene are maintained. Animal rights groups and some vegetarians prefer to highlight the practices inside a slaughterhouse - in part to expose and correct allegedly inhumane treatment of animals where it occurs, but also to encourage people to face the reality of meat production, which may lead to more people's choosing a meat-free or reduced-meat diet. Some animal-rights advocates regard the activities performed in slaughterhouses as cruel or unconscionable. -Wikipediia --- Andrew Bucksbarg Assistant Professor of Telecommunications [EMAIL PROTECTED] Organicode.net # distributed via nettime: no commercial use without permission # nettime is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: [EMAIL PROTECTED] and info nettime-l in the msg body # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nettime@bbs.thing.net
