Meh
Lots of paper writing and reading lately, some summaries are posted at the Antilibrary blog. Related to a comment I made to Lexington about politics, war, and legitimacy (and don’t miss the Clausewitz roundtable too) is this story out of San Francisco. Normally Huffington Post blogs are crap, but the story is indicative of Virilio: after all, its a post about the illegitimate use of violence against lawbreakers trying to drum up more attention, to create ‘tele-presence’ and focus the media’s attention on the act itself.
[...] thank you to Stephen Pampinella, who mentioned the shooting in a recent blog post and attracted my attention to the Oakland Riots. « USS George H.W. [...]
Interesting beginning. I look forward to seeing how this line-of-thought develops.