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Bollywood, Rick Astley, and the Israeli Arms Industry

Amid growing international concern over the India-Israel arms trade, the Israeli firm Rafael unveiled the below marketing video — described by Stephen Trimble of The Dew Line as a “catastrophic collision of Bollywood and the arms industry” – at the Aero India 2009 defense convention in Bangalore. In the months since its posting, the video has become the [...]

Information Blackout in the Submarine War Film

Information Blackout in the Submarine War Film

On the subject of the development of the screen and interface, Virilio notes the strange, historical moment, now difficult to appreciate, when “the surprise effect came from the sudden appearance of pictures and signs on a monitor”, rather than from some kind of direct perception (War and Cinema 72). It is, then, only natural that [...]

US Military’s Human Terrain System handbook leaked

If there was ever any doubt as to the nature of the relation between HTS units and counter-insurgency operations, last week’s leaking of the Human Terrain System manual has firmly settled the question:
“HTTs will use the Map-HT Toolkit of developmental hardware and software to capture, consolidate, tag, and ingest human terrain data. HTTs use this [...]

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