Bench Grass

Bench Grass is a blog about the history of technology by the former student of a student of Lynn White. The main focus is a month-by-month retrospective series, covering the technology news, broadly construed, of seventy years ago, framed by fictional narrators. The author is Erik Lund, an "independent scholar" in Vancouver, British Columbia. Last post will be 24 July 2039.

Friday, April 27, 2012

The Art of Not Being Governed, V: Not Being Squicky

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Bonus post! This is what comes of having a human amount of time off. So I want to talk about the Roman legion as a generator of social cap...
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Thursday, April 26, 2012

The Art of Not Being Governed, V: So What Are Your Options If You're Not?

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When last we left this series, I was playing footsie with the Third Century Crisis. What the heck happened? Well, first off...
Wednesday, April 18, 2012

The Art of Not Being Governed, IV: Technological Attenuation

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Today's theme, again, is the bold rejection of a past without painfully shallow but still real curve of population increase, and thus ...
Thursday, April 12, 2012

The Art of Not Being Governed, III: Agricultural Technology makes state-resistant geographies?

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Edit: Added art attribution.  The  argument here is that it is not particularly plausible that the Roman Empire in the west fell throug...
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Wednesday, April 4, 2012

The Art of Not Being Governed, II: Flight Considered As a Lack of Litter

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So there was a black-haired girl who belted them. She was the partner of the Governor of California, so I thought of her as a personificati...
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Monday, March 26, 2012

Running Away to the Air, 6: Brick Walls Always Stand Their Ground

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Edit: Oops, forgot to justify last night. A long time ago, I wrote a juvenile article about the RAF and Britain’s war effort. I called ...
Thursday, March 22, 2012

The Art of Not Being Governed, I: Stateless Topographies and Illegibilities of Resistance

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So I promised that I'd talk about polo and bicycles. (Also fox hunting and the King's Cup Aero Race). How about this: aspirational s...
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