Drones and atomic bombs
I’ve had my head down these past few weeks writing the long-form version of ‘Little Boys and Blue Skies’ (see here and here for preliminary notes), and en route I’ve been doing some more digging into...
View ArticlePictures of war
An interesting CFP for a conference next spring on Pictures of war: the still image in conflict since 1945: Manchester Metropolitan University, Manchester UK 24th & 25th May 2018 (Deadline for CFP:...
View ArticleNuclear narcissism
As Donald Trump‘s grotesque unfitness for office becomes ever clearer – though to most of us it was as plain as a pikestaff long before the election – a central vector of concern has been his proximity...
View ArticleDrones through Post-Atomic Eyes
A post-script to my last post: the (very!) long-form version of “Little Boys and Blue Skies: Drones through Post-Atomic Eyes” is now available under the DOWNLOADS tab. The sections are: Escape from...
View ArticleThe Unconscious Life of Bombs
Last month I did a long interview with Daniel Pick for a BBC Radio 4 documentary, The Unconscious Life of Bombs. It’s now been broadcast, and you can listen to the whole thing here. Historian and...
View ArticleWar Stories
New books on the radar: Gary Fields, Enclosure: Palestinian landscapes in a historical mirror (California, September 2017): Enclosure marshals bold new arguments about the nature of the conflict in...
View ArticleCities and War
This week the Guardian launched a new series on Cities and War: War is urbanising. No longer fought on beaches or battlefields, conflict has come to the doors of millions living in densely populated...
View ArticleFootprints of War
When I was working on my essay on ‘The natures of war’ (DOWNLOADS tab), I was surprised at how few sustained discussions of ‘nature’ as a medium through which military violence is conducted – though...
View ArticleWars in Words
New books forthcoming from Duke University Press (for my money, one of the most interesting and innovative of university presses – beautifully produced and at accessible prices too: UK publishers...
View ArticleThe Bombing Encyclopedia and military interrogation
Ever since I first wrote about the US Air Force’s Bombing Encyclopedia of the World (see here, here, and here) I’ve received endless e-mails about the project, but now there is a wonderful article by...
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Post-Atomic Eyes
An age ago I was asked to contribute to a symposium in Toronto on ‘Post-atomic eyes‘; I confessed at the time that I was taken aback – what on earth were the connections between drones and nuclear...
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