Thursday, March 31, 2011

Fall of France, 9: Manpower, Part 6, 3: Computers. Drilling Down.

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There are ways and ways to make this argument. The unpersuasive way is to swan about making dubious connections. The more persuasive way is ...
Sunday, March 27, 2011

Gather the Bones, 5: What the Heck I'm Talking About, via Martin Byers

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The thesis here is that the North American polities are much more like the mestizo societies of Latin America than is admitted in their publ...
Tuesday, March 22, 2011

Fall of France, 9: Manpower, Part 6, 2: Computers: Wet Work

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Norbert Wiener was probably a pretty difficult guy to work with. Apparently, he'd already cut ties with his fellow "cybernetic...
Sunday, March 20, 2011

The Plantation of the Atlantic, III: Happy CelticFest!

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Did March 17th take you by surprise this year? It did me, and, not to project too much, a great many other people. Too much fretting over ...
Tuesday, March 15, 2011

Fall of France, 9: Manpower, Part 6, 1: Computers. No. Seriously.

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It is dawn on 21 May, 1940.  We War of the Spanish Succession historians know this geography The Dyle Line on which the Allies planned...
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Monday, March 14, 2011

The Plantation of the Atlantic, II: Flatness Ending. A Technological Account?

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Civil engineers create and conserve the state , but  reify its injustices as a natural order in the process . So you can see where the whole...
Tuesday, March 8, 2011

The Plantation of the Atlantic, I: Geography

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The Roman Empire in the west was built overland within an economic geography that, as far as we know, pointed inland and south towards the M...