Marc | March 25, 2009
I have been running around a lot for the past few days and really just haven’t had much time to blog. I did want to note a few things, however, that have been happening. First, the CT Lab will be hosting another symposium, this time on P.W. Singer’s book Wired for War starting on Monday. [...]
Marc | March 17, 2009
that reality TV was bad! Check this out… http://www.cbc.ca/arts/theatre/story/2009/03/17/daskapital-musical-china.html All I can say is…. Where do I get the tickets! (there are a number iof people I want to give them to (evil grin))
Marc | March 14, 2009
The CT Lab symposium on Urbicide has been extended until Sunday evening (GMT), mainly because the conversation keeps going on. It is, on the whole, quite fascinating, and it has rapidly moved into the area of philosophy – to whit, metaphysics, ontology and epistemology. I wish it were happening in realtime, in a (smoking) pub! [...]
Marc | March 9, 2009
When I was growing up, vacations used to mean getting away from it all. Not any more… When Leslie and I head off tomorrow, we will be carrying two laptops plus the usual electronic suspects (and our dog… the cat stays here). Indeed, almost half of the pre-vacation shopping consisted of getting electroic paraphenalia.
Marc | March 7, 2009
Starting on Tuesday, the CT Lab will be hosting the first of the 2009 symposia; this one will be on on Martin Coward’s recent book, Urbicide: The Politics of Urban Destruction (Routledge: 2008). It’s going to be a great line-up of people and I am really looking froward to participating in it. So far, the [...]
Marc | March 5, 2009
The more I look at modern US / Coalition military thinking, the more I reminded of Rome. This might be because I spent several months last fall looking at how they conceptualized and used ethnographic / cultural knowledge, but I have a feeling that the factors leading to the paralels are somewhat deeper; at the [...]
Marc | March 2, 2009
MAJ Ben Connable’s recent article in Military Review (April, 09) is well worth reading (hat tips to Kerry Fosher and Max Forte). Max has already posted selective quotes from it, but I think it is better to read the entire article (Max would probably agree – it’s that limit on the blog format). In essence, [...]
Marc | March 1, 2009
I have had a rather heavy schedule for the past couple of weeks, and I am leaving for Toronto in an hour or so. What this means is that I have had to cut back on my blogging. Of course, this doesn’t mean that I haven’t been doing anything . I have been followingthe Dudley-Flores [...]
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