Rapid Response
Interesting post from Ben Anderson at Berfois. He suggests that ‘Over ten years since the advent of the war on terror it is no longer the “state of emergency” that dominates modern government’s...
View Article‘Double tap’
Glenn Greenwald – who’s moved from Salon.com to become the Guardian‘s columnist on civil liberties and US national security – describes the vicious twist given to ‘rapid response‘ in US military and...
View ArticleGaza 101
101 is the emergency number for Gaza and the rest of occupied Palestine. And perhaps I should begin with that sentence: I say ‘the rest of occupied Palestine’ because, despite Israel’s ‘disengagement’...
View ArticleMissing maps
A postscript (of sorts: a postpost?) to my previous discussion of the use of satellite imagery by humanitarian organisations. Today’s Guardian includes a notice by Chris Michael of the Missing Maps...
View ArticleEmergency Response
I’ve been catching up on a stream of publications by Pete Adey and Ben Anderson on emergencies, including ‘Affect and security: exercising emergency in UK “civil contingencies”‘, Society & Space...
View ArticleIntelligence designed
The latest issue of Limn is on ‘The total archive‘: Vast accumulations of data, documents, records, and samples saturate our world: bulk collection of phone calls by the NSA and GCHQ; Google, Amazon or...
View ArticleThe Violence of Populism and Precarity
The LA Review of Books has an interesting interview (conducted by Brad Evans) with Mark Duffield here. I’m not sure the posted title (‘The Death of Humanitarianism’) captures the range and force of...
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Covid-19 and armed conflict
The next installment of ‘Under Afghan Skies‘ will appear this week, but I’ve also been trying to pull together what information and insight there is on the impact of the pandemic on Syria (more on that...
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