Oyez, Oyez! Reminder to Londoners…

Here’s a final reminder for all those who are able to get into London this evening:

Location map here. Everyone’s welcome, and it’s free, so please come along!

One Night Only – London Goes Feral

Readers of BLDGBLOG will have noticed that Geoff Manaugh, along with ‘chaoplexic warfare’ guru Antoine Bousquet, are appearing together on 26th November in central London. I’m pleased to say I’ve played a small part in getting the evening together, through my co-stewardship of the Complex Terrain Laboratory, who are hosting this first in a series [...]

Maunsell Forts

What’s not to love? Like marine AT-ATs standing sentinel over the sealanes approaching London, these are the WWII Red Sands Maunsell Forts:

Image from Subterrain. More on the Thames Maunsell Forts here, here, here, here, here and here. Spotted at Cyber Badger. Also, Geoff Manaugh on the forts.
For a taste of what it’s like to move [...]

Battlespace Obscura

Battlespace :: Unrealities of War :: Photographs from Iraq & Afghanistan 2003-2008.

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, [...]