Urban Death, Virtual Death

Life’s short, we’re all busy, but at least we can blog when there’s time. I’ve got three recent posts at CTlab that might be of interest to some readers:
Death of the City
Death of Cyberspace
Tripping, Deathtripping in Cyberspace
They’re not quite as morbid as they sound. Probably as pretentious though.

Al-Qaeda – the new Luther Blissett?

(Cross-posted from Ubiwar)
“You are a member of ‘al-Qaeda’ if you say you are” – Jason Burke (2007), Al-Qaeda: The True Story of Radical Islam
The franchise analogy has occasionally been applied to the decentralised nature of al-Qaeda-inspired activities and the above quote from Jason Burke neatly sums up the idea that al-Qaeda as an idea, nay, [...]