under fire again
PDF | Jordan Crandall’s UNDER FIRE mailinglist started into a new season of discourse: UNDER FIRE is an ongoing art and research project that explores militarization and political violence. It delves into the structural, symbolic, and affective dimensions of armed conflicts: the organization, representation, and materialization of war. |  |
Example of this week’s introduction by Alain Joxe on ‘War Infrastructures’ which will bring in JOHN ARMITAGE and PAUL N. EDWARDS / Intervention: KELLER EASTERLING (on the global industry of subtraction), RAQS MEDIA COLLECTIVE (on the act of ‘turning a deaf ear’) / Insertions: MANUEL DELANDA (on war ecologies); CHALMERS JOHNSON (on military baseworlds); SASKIA SASSEN (on territory, authority, and rights) ...
... A “chaos” has now completely, and for years to come, replaced the orderly world of the Cold War. Nonetheless it has a dynamic morphology: an overdeveloped core, zones forming constellations of democracy or free market clusters in circular form, then, further away, zones separated by flexible or ephemeral institutional, economic or military membranes; zones in crisis, zones of barbaric violence, social wastelands and slow or rapid genocide; a surveillance system consisting of observational satellites and of bureaucracies to interpret their observations and databases; a non-hierarchical system of communication, telephone, internet, cyberspace, an infosphere structured as an anarchic, but diversified, space. ....