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BTW ... AR served as the preliminary underpinning for planning the war in Iraq
following 9/11 .... It is still w/absolute shock that I recall that my Dean
recommended some of my undergraduate students work on this DOD project in order
to access these " State of the Art " technologies - gaming and disembodiment in
their nascent stages. " In any war of self-interest, empathy is first fatality.
All best,
Chris
On Mar 27, 2017, at 8:51 PM, Renate Terese Ferro wrote:
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> Thanks Frédéric for writing in. Wars: military, social, psychological, wars
> between families, technological war.....
> will you moderate ? Tomorrow I am teaching my students a bit about Augmented
> Reality. What about a war in virtual space?
> Best to you, Renate
>
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On Mar 27, 2017, at 11:02 PM, Frederic Neyrat <fney...@gmail.com> wrote:
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>> Concerning the occupation - "many of us feel that this is no longer "our"
>> country or "our" government, but a kind of occupation or
>> doubling/doppelgange"r - let's think about The Man in the High Castle (the
>> TV show at least, for I did not read PKD's book).
>>
>> So, on the one side, the High Castle = the WH; on the other side, Sanctuary
>> Cities that the WH tries to turn into Obituary Cities.
>>
>> I don't know what will be the result of this war. But it's a kind of war,
>> right? Maybe Empyre forum could devote a month to that topic: Wars.
>>
>> My best,
>>
>> Frédéric
>>
>> 2017-03-27 20:48 GMT-05:00 Alan Sondheim <sondh...@panix.com>:
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>> Sanctuary Cities (apologies if I'm just repeating the obvious)
>>
>> This may be of interest only to US residents, for which apologies.
>> It does give some indication of the brutality of a regime which
>> pays little attention to protest. The result for refugee and
>> immigrant communities - even for families legally in the country -
>> has been devastating.
>>
>> http://www.cnn.com/2017/03/27/politics/jeff-sessions-trump-sanctuary-cities/
>> http://www.cnn.com/2017/01/25/politics/sanctuary-cities-explained/
>>
>> (Sending it out because we're in a sanctuary city and state; both are poor,
>> and, being pessimistic, I'm waiting for the resulting havoc. What's so
>> strange, uncanny, for so many of us, is the speed with which the tenor of
>> the US has changed; we've gone from more traditional protests (against
>> police brutality, military engagement, women's rights, BLM) to protests
>> based on a different atmosphere - that of overt racist acts, and potential
>> or real federal attacks on the poor, Blacks, Latinos, the environment etc. -
>> attacks from the very institutions that are "supposed" to protect us. So in
>> a very real sense, many of us feel that this is no longer "our" country or
>> "our" government, but a kind of occupation or doubling/doppelganger, and
>> that's hard to come to grips with. I'm speaking of course from two positions
>> - that of being white, middle-class, and "educated," and that of being
>> Jewish and "senior," and witnessing, for the first time in years, acts of
>> anti-semitism on the increase, even in Rhode Island (I won't even describe
>> the destructive ageism I'm dealing with). So I'm privileged on the whole,
>> not having to deal with what a friend here calls micro- aggressions against
>> minorities - micro-aggressions that occur constantly, that have only
>> increased as well. On a plane of sociality/communality, the US is a foreign
>> country for many of us, located nowhere, going nowhere but towards a brutal
>> and militarist future, at least for the time-being.)
>>
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