http://www.ctheory.com/article/a072.html
this is a piece called 'Anything that moves: Armed Vision" by Jordan
Crandall, who i met at the I-DAT conference in Plymouth last spring.
As well as rehaearsing the now familiar virilio line of
war-cinema-simulation- collapse of time- battlefield autonomy- powerless
civil sphere,his more recent pieces on http://jordancrandall.com/main/
focus on specifics of the current warfare in Iraq and Afghanistan- in
particular the role of unmanned spy planes- which now carry weaponry and
are authorised/controlled by the intelligence services. several
incidents where wedding parties etc have been attacked- sometimes as a
result of firing shots into the air in celebration- have occurred as a
result of non-military personnel at consoles in Virginia "flying"
missions with automated sensing thousands of miles away. And who are
these "pilots?" Gamers.
Now of course Jordan crandall may be another alarmist. Maybe games are
just harmless fun. But the functionalist mentality games produce in a
world bereft of real human contact is ideal training terrain for todays
disembodied wars. Which are not happening.
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