"Tucked away in the hills north of San Luis Obispo is a miniature city waiting
for
attack. Concrete buildings with courtyards hug the grassy slopes, yards away
from
a 40-foot sniper tower and shooting ranges. They're part of the newly renovated
urban assault training complex at Camp San Luis Obis
see
http://www.uni-wuerzburg.de/mineralogie/kircher/kircher2.html
<3> This post was simultaneously published on BLDGBLOG
(http://bldgblog.blogspot.com). See Geoff Manaugh, "Geomagnetic Harddrive":
http://bldgblog.blogspot.com/2005/08/geomagnetic-harddrive.html
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Anyone interested in more Isr/Pal/global military urbanism questions (as per
Brian
Holmes's question, below), check out Bryan Finoki's recent news-grabs on
Archinect:
http://archinect.com/news/article.php?id=P23879_0_24_0_C
http://archinect.com/news/article.php?id=P23708_0_24_0_C
http://archinec
mineral, every pebble, every
grain of sand, perhaps every organic molecule, into complex, three-dimensional,
time-persistent patterns
for which we have no standard or even technique of measurement. Or maybe
William Blake knew how to do it,
or Pythagoras, or perhaps even Nicola Tesla, but...
T
A theory that has not found itself in wide circulation on nettime, and for
an understandable reason, is the one about too many car parks: that is, the
United States is full of parking lots - huge, paved, empty spaces built on
a scale that's literally inhuman - and so the only possible response a
pe
Like watching a potato try to come up with something. A dream, a vision...
an acknowledgement of the internet? In 2005? Go, little potato! Little
billionaire potato! You're brilliant!
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We ignore internet at our peril, Murdoch warns editors
Chris Tryhorn,
Psychovideography / 'Fortress Urbanism' [1]
And so now New York City may attempt to install the total cinematic dream
that has consumed London's private security firms for the past three
decades, lost as they are in the Warholian ecstasy of filming every last
centimeter of urban space, week after
