Posted in architecture, books, ideas, literature, tagged architecture, Bibliodyssey, books, fortifications, fortresses, history, memory, ruins, W.G. Sebald, war on November 15, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
I came across these alien geometrical graphics via Bibliodyssey (oh how I can wander that blog for days and days):
They’re plans for fortresses.
Such complexes of fortifications, said Austerlitz, concluding his remarks that day in the Antwerp Glove Market as he rose from the table and slung his rucksack over his shoulder, show us how, [...]
Posted in books, photography, tagged atomic bomb, Bhagavad-Gita, books, Michael Light, photography, Richard Rhodes, war on November 13, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
I’m having some difficulty writing about 100 Suns. This is the collection of photos documenting above-ground nuclear explosions selected and compiled by Michael Light. On the one hand I’m fascinated by the images and on the other repulsed by all the horror they imply.
How easy it is to aestheticise the photos. Form, colour, texture – [...]
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