{"id":443,"date":"2007-01-10T23:10:22","date_gmt":"2007-01-11T06:10:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/2007\/01\/10\/maps-diagrams-and-war\/"},"modified":"2015-03-02T21:30:59","modified_gmt":"2015-03-03T04:30:59","slug":"maps-diagrams-and-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/maps-diagrams-and-war\/","title":{"rendered":"maps, diagrams and war"},"content":{"rendered":"

I vaguely remember hearing about this before, something about a raid on a Qaida house and blam blam attacks and rockets and all that bloodshed. I sorta remember wondering, given time-zone differences, reporting lag, etc., if there was any overlap between the gunfire and me pop popping in the new year<\/a> (was I pulling the popper at the same moment a bullet was being lodged into somebody’s throat?).<\/p>\n

Then I read this post<\/a> over on the superb videoblog Alive in Baghdad<\/a> (although there are no videos in this link), and it re-kindled those thoughts. For some reason, I have an interest in maps, diagrams, topologies. And for some time, likely due to increased sensitivity to the issue, the interest in topologies has overlapped with war<\/em> (I’ve blogged about this concern before<\/a>). I’m sure one day some ‘artwork’ will come out of it – one wants to relate one’s energies, but the issue is so overwhelming.<\/p>\n

\"American<\/p>\n

I sometimes find the position of being an artist problematic. When I first saw this diagram one of the first thoughts that came to my mind was ‘I wonder if there are any photos of the rubble?’ I like rubble. I like it’s form and how it is made up of recently destroyed but somehow still ‘valid’ materials – it is evidence of a moment, like photography<\/a> but fucking raw. But why am I thinking about the rubble? Why am I thinking about the composition of building materials, dust, wreckage and possible body parts?<\/p>\n

The question is too tough to answer right now, or ever probably. (Oh, and I did find a couple<\/a> photos<\/a> of the rubble – thank you Yahoo!<\/a> and CNN<\/a>, cheers really!)<\/p>\n

Related websites:<\/strong>
\nMore over at dailykos<\/a><\/p>\n

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