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snippets fantasies but in the end output the original twitter offers the amazing ability to transmit our most naked and original moments across time and space with rich video and imagery our trials and tribulations our sons and their granddaughters will be able to see how we thought with a thousand times more clarity than we will ever be able to comprehend kafka s snippets perhaps this will drive them to hear the call itself embedded in the global thought stream copiously documented online kafka was first limited by his day job and later in his life his health revealing an inverse relationship between constraints and writing the absurd creating the original today we have compounded those physical constraints with overwhelming information overload crippled by this daily infoassault we cannot even output our absurd our original we cannot add to that which we observe instead courtesy of kafka s servants at twitter we can endorse but we cannot transform what we experience into our own we are reduced to retweets written by shlokv march 15 2010 at 12 18 am posted in fiction tagged with kafka review senator s son leave a comment nearly 25 years ago as a freshman college student balancing a science major with the obligatory credits in the humanities my english 101 professor introduced me to the concept of verisimilitude the likeness or resemblance of a creative writing effort to reality while this was a difficult feat for me in my writing assignments it is something that luke larson has effortlessly achieved in his first novel senator s son luke was a journalism major at a rival pac 10 school courtesy of an nrotc scholarship to the university of arizona and as a junior officer in the u s marine corps served two tours in iraq both in al anbar province first in 2005 during the election of the iraqi transitional government that was to draft a permanent constitution and again in 2007 during the iraqi national referendum and the start of general petraeus s surge senator s son wastes no time hurling the reader into the breech written in a tempo prestissimo style this rapid fire novel gives you a no holds barred perspective of modern counterinsurgency from multiple perspectives the families at home with a dissociated populace the wounded warriors battling the demons of recovery opiate pain killer addictions and post traumatic stress disorder the careerist bureaucrats that infiltrate every large organization and most importantly the junior officers and non commissioned officers who must make up for higher s planning inadequacies and strategic myopia larson s use of a 2047 scenario in the southwest pacific with a lone senator holding the deciding vote on whether or not to commit u s military power abroad helps to reinforce the strategic consequences our actions today can have on future generations set in 2007 ar ramadi a city of nearly a half million that serves as the provincial capital of al anbar province just west of baghdad senator s son is the story of the platoons of golf company golf is a marine company part of a marine battalion tied to an army brigade responsible for sweeping missions in south ramadi in the days prior to the 2007 iraqi national referendum and a few months prior to the surge their early ventures from the snake pit a heavily fortified marine firm base poignantly demonstrate the complexities of contemporary warfare the force protection concerns are palpable one can almost smell the raw sewage flowing through the ruined streets of a dying city and feel the peering eyes of snipers tracking you in their sights every piece of litter is a potential improvised explosive device and every sound a threat and like mayor giuliani s broken windows theory in late 1990s new york city the reluctant shift from a hardened up armored patrol mindset to one of cooperative engagement with a foreign culture underscores the essence of counterinsurgency coin doctrine now codified in fm 3 24 mcwp 3 33 5 counterinsurgency like real life there are few happy endings in this book each platoon commander in golf has his own strengths and fallibilities from steadfast bama s bravery and bigotries to the maverick greg s ingenuity and independence and each must face his own demons in the prose that larson deftly weaves at a minimum senator s son is a brilliant primer on leadership how to learn which rules are worth breaking the importance of adaptability when there are no black or white situations but only gray and the primacy of relationships but it is also a tribute to those who answer a call to serve whether they serve in their own communities as volunteers or have the privilege of wearing the eagle globe and anchor of a marine like my grandfather a mortarman with charlie 1 6 in guadalcanal and tarawa and my grandmother a clerk typist at hunters point san francisco who met my grandfather after his malaria washed him out of the fleet marine force senator s son is a testament to the resilience of those who carry the burden of personal sacrifice with such humility that we can take our own freedom for granted this book is a must read for anyone who cares about the greater world beyond our neighborhood and the role that power be it the hard power of weaponry and kinetic energy or the soft power of relationships can play in shaping the world for better or for worse cross posted at wizards of oz and zenpundit written by deichmans february 21 2010 at 9 46 pm posted in fiction the information bomb with 23 comments verso 2006 compared to deleuze and guattari reading virilio is a breeze this is a short book of about 150 pages yet it packs as dense a punch as a thousand plateaus and uses similar concepts and terms virilio retains a pessimistic outlook regarding humanity s relationship to technology and views all scientific and technological development as being driven by military necessity hence the internet itself was developed by the defense department and originally named darpanet but is then unleashed upon the world as a means of connecting the world via information and ultimately giving the world finite boundaries that can be transversed instantaenously actual reality which is governed by physical spaces and distances is now supplemented by a virtual reality that produces and reproduces its own information that alters actual reality virilio s world is one in which all locals are truly global where only world time exists since all unfolding events are simultaneously broadcast across the world at every moment and just as we can instantaenously broadcost information to the world the world can just as easily look in and following the vast network of information exchange to focus on any event or place in the world thus we have an age of tele surveillance made possible by the grand scale transhorizon optics of universal global virtual reality p 13 15 the planet itself has now become cybernetic and endogenous meaning that all information broadcast on each reflexively feeds back onto itself and all points on earch creating new responses to new information created and disseminated in virtual reality everyone can which everyone else as global media focuses in and out of new objects a process that has its own strategic value ripe for manipulation take advertising given a global audience and a global market by the information bomb capitalism can now invent demand for any of its products among every single human population this is a new world ecology of information making possible new possibilities for self perpetuating war machines p 49 that reproduce themselves using global information channels since all information and locales are connected to each other competition with one s adversaries military or economic necessitates that each actor wages an all out war of information to disseminate itself to all other actors essentially to control information and how it is perceived thus globalization creates a single panoptical point of observation in which we are all directed to observe the same events and all observers can observe each of us p 60 61 virilio deplores the homogenizing effects of the information bomb yet at the same time fortells its own destruction by creating a self referencing virtual reality grafted onto actual reality the information bomb creates the possibility of an image crash where virtual ideas distort actual reality and do not conform to the perceptions of other actors in monetary terms virtual inflation no longer relates solely to the economy of manufactured products or the financial bubble but to the very understanding of our relation to the world p 113 virilio almost perfectly describes the american financial crisis in this section itself caused by making up things that didn t exist collective disbelief or at least belief in something else instead of historical periods longue durees time is reduced to light and speed a cosmological constant capable of conditioning human history p 119 conditioning is creating mechanical mental responses that automate human existence even democracy becomes automatic as life becomes cybernetic this history of the end of this millennium held in a levitated state is based almost solely on the incessant tele presence of events which do not really succeed each other since the relief of instantaneity is already winning out over the depth of historical successivity finally everything is reversed what arrives what suddenly comes to us is far more important than what leaves what goes off to the depths of our memories or the far reaches of the geographical horizon p 127 discursively creating a telepresence using global information technology can be understood as information warfare fought over creating real time exchanges on the dimensions of geophysical techno scientific and ideological global reality p 143 as if war was fought at light speed by the transmission of successive images that created new interests and objectives in the minds of other people and because the new ecology is linked to every other part of itself it can change rapidly and create dramatic shifts in group identities and interests historical processes that might have taken hundreds of years before the information bomb might be condensed or vulnerable to rapid and chaotic change because society is ideationally moving faster literally toward light speed thus virilio invents the term dromology to describe the logic of speed it might be interesting to see how dromology relates to contemporay wars particularly irregular conflicts like those raging across southwest asia update for another look at virilio check out adam s review which kicked off this blog yes reviewing the same book without realizing would constitute something of an epic fail on my part thanks for asking written by stephenpampinella january 9 2009 at 10 15 pm posted in uncategorized nuclear proliferation one more thing to read about and worry about with 2 comments tom barnett linked to this really good article entitled hidden travels of the atomic bomb the article had this awesome graphic the article is based in part on this new book i read the article my hand hovered over the mouse you know how this ends i bought the book when will i ever be able to read it who the heck knows i hope so cross posted at chicagoboyz written by lexingtongreen january 5 2009 at 11 40 pm posted in nonfiction a thousand plateaus with 2 comments gilles deleuze and felix guattari university of minnesota press minneapolis finally finished a thousand plateaus actually i skipped a 100 pages in the middle this is intense postmodern critical theory much more complicated than anything foucault has written in the intrdoduction the authors write that each chapter doesn t necessarily have to be read in order reinforcing the feeling that each goes in its own schizophrenic direction on the whole you can discern a method to the whole piece as it evolves from discussing psychology language and interpretation to more concretely political concepts like the state and the war machine before getting to the overtly political issues plateaus reads as if someone opened up all the possibilities of perception to one s mind emphasizing that all events and objects in the world can be viewed differently depending on one s spatial position and the assemblage of linguistic signs semiotic that assign meaning to observations in such a world without fixity and in constant flux what we should strive to be is a body without organs and always maintain the ability to renegotiate our internal structure organs to the reality we perceive the bwo is a connection of desires conjunction of flows continuum of intensities you have constructed own little machine ready when needed to be plugged into other collective machines p 161 in interactive situations to maintain this fluidity requires constantly being able to change one s face or faciality the shifting combinations of black holes on white screens orifices on the pristine face of christ form locations of resonance that connect the realities of interacting persons we observe each other s face to understand how other faces perceive us and their surroundings whether their expressions indicate anger satisfaction etc and like the bwo we should strive to have an ever changing face to the point that if human beings have a destiny it is rather to escape the face to dismantle the face and facializations to become imperceptible to become clandestine not by returning to animality nor even by returning to the head but by quite spritual and special becomings animal by strange true becomings that get past the wall and get out of the black hoels that make faciality traits themselves finally elude the organization of the face p 171 the overtly political elements are interwoven throughout the text but are fully expressed towards the end of the book in chapters discussing the war machine the state s apparatus of capture and smooth and striated space these sections make clear deleuze and guattari s affinity for the islamic scholar ibn khaldun whose muqaddimah charts a universal history of arab civilization the state itself is juxtaposed against a war machine it attempts to appropriate for its own policy in the form of military institutions however the war machine is always external to the state and outside its sovereignty and has to be continutiously controlled by the state lest it becomes self perpetuating and takes over the policies of the state only to reproduce itself and block the development of states by keeping societies segmented and divided p 355 these actual segmentations between social groups represent striated spaces that set the boundaries of smooth or nomad spaces one of the fundamental tasks of the state is to striate the space over which it reigns or to utilize smooth spaces as a means of communication in the service of striated space p 385 the state works against an insurgent war machine that is revived a new nomadic potential develops with each act of mobilization by nomads p 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