Battlespace/s: Feral Cities and the Scientific Way of Warfare

Complex Terrain Laboratory is pleased to announce an upcoming event in London, to which everyone is invited (free admission!). This is the first in a series of Battlespaces/s events, and we’d very much like your support if you’re going to be in town.

“FERAL CITIES AND THE SCIENTIFIC WAY OF WARFARE”

A Public Lecture and Open Discussion With Geoff Manaugh and Antoine Bousquet

JZ Young Lecture Theatre | 26 November 2008 | 19:00-21:00
UCL Anatomy Building, Gower Street, London

Contemporary political discourse on armed violence and insecurity has been largely shaped by references to spatial knowledge, simulation, and control: “human terrain”, “urban clutter”, “terrorist sanctuaries”, “failed states”, “core-periphery”. The historical counterpoint to this is to be found in the key role the successive technologies of clock, engine, computer, and network have all played in spatializing the practice of warfare. In this context, what implications do “feral” Third World cities, “rogue” cities organized along non-Western ideas of urban space and infrastructure, and “wild” cities reclaimed by nature, have for the battlespaces of today and tomorrow?

Admission is free, open to all, and on a first-come first-served basis.

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Geoff Manaugh is senior editor of Dwell magazine and the author of BLDGBLOG (www.bldgblog.blogspot.com), where he writes “architectural conjecture, urban speculation, and landscape futures.”

Dr. Antoine Bousquet is Lecturer in International Relations at Birkbeck College, London, and author of The Scientific Way of Warfare: Order and Chaos on the Battlefields of Modernity (Hurst & Co. Publishers, 2009;
Columbia University Press, 2009).

Presented by The Complex Terrain Laboratory (http://www.terraplexic.org)
Sponsored by Symbio Design (http://www.symbiodesign.com)
Event URL: http://www.terraplexic.org/battlespaces1

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Contacts:
Michael A. Innes
School of Public Policy/Dept. of Political Science
University College London
The Rubin Building, 29/30 Tavistock Square
London, WC1H 9QU
Phone: +32 477 824 970
Email:  m.innes@ucl.ac.uk

Tim Stevens
International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation and Political Violence
King’s College London, 138-142 Strand
London, WC2R 1HH
phone: +44 (0) 207 848 2065
email: Tim.Stevens@icsr.info

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Please disseminate as you see fit. You can also download a .pdf poster for the event here.