‘Imagination bodies forth…’
Following from my previous post, I’ve been thinking a lot about bodies recently, and for two reasons. The first is the workshop on War & Medicine I attended in Paris just before Christmas. It...
View ArticleDrones, battlefields and later modern war
This morning the Stimson Center issued an 81-page Recommendations and Report of the Task Force on US Drone Policy: you can access it online via the New York Times here or download it as a pdf here;...
View ArticleThe War Corps
The US Congressional Research Service recently released a report, Instances of Use of United States Armed Forces Abroad, 1798-2014: The instances differ greatly in number of forces, purpose, extent of...
View ArticleIrresponsible Eyes
I’m off to Berlin to give a new version of ‘Angry Eyes‘ at HAU’s Waffenlounge (‘Weapons Lounge’), so I’ve been thinking some more about the dispersed and distributed field of militarized vision. En...
View ArticleCitizen Ex
I’m late to this, so apologies, but if you are either weary of web-surfing or can’t get off your digital board, check out James Bridle‘s Citizen Ex project on ‘algorithmic citizenship’: Algorithmic...
View ArticleHidden in plane sight
Just out: Negative Publicity: artefacts of extraordinary rendition by Edmund Clark and Crofton Black, with an essay by Eyal Weizman: British photographer Edmund Clark and counterterrorism investigator...
View ArticleSpaces of exception and enemies
I’m just back from a wonderful time at a conference in Galway organised by John Morrissey as part of The Haven Project on the refugee crisis in the Mediterranean. The latest issue of Human Geography...
View ArticleRe-launch and Rescue
The much-missed Radical Philosophy has just re-launched as an open access journal with downloadable pdfs here. The site also includes access to the journal’s wonderful archive. Among the riches on...
View ArticleLandscapes of intervention
An excellent new edition of Middle East Report (290) on The New Landscape of Intervention; full download details here. The concept of intervention brings to mind foreign military actions that violate a...
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Bringing the war home (with apologies to Martha Rosler)
We know how often the vocabulary of medicine has been hi-jacked to describe military violence (‘surgical strikes’ and the rest) – if you are unfamiliar with the trope, I recommend Colleen Bell’s two...
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