Comments on: 5GW / xGW around the blogosphere http://www.tdaxp.com/archive/2008/05/21/5gw-xgw-around-the-blogosphere.html All of us against the machine Sat, 20 Mar 2010 03:18:56 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Greg McDowall http://www.tdaxp.com/archive/2008/05/21/5gw-xgw-around-the-blogosphere.html/comment-page-1#comment-74652 Greg McDowall Thu, 22 May 2008 05:04:26 +0000 http://www.tdaxp.com/?p=5577#comment-74652 This is only tangentially related to xGW but I thought you might find it intriguing. A while back I thought about the transition between generations of warfare after reading your posts on the subject. I was hoping that any overlap between the previous incarnations would help illuminate 5GW, sort of like Abbot's use of 2D-3D ineraction in Flatland to conceptualize higher dimensions. Well when I went about my search, for some reason I thought of fractal dimensions instead of generations. So I googled "fractal war" and came across a French urbanist named Paul Virilio. He has some original ideas about the future of war with his conception of what he calls the integral accident and calling the First Gulf War a fractal war, i.e. one that was at once local and global. Virilio gave an interview with Armitage over at ctheory.net http://www.ctheory.net/articles.aspx?id=132 How do you think the dimensions of war both physical and perceptual play out in each of the generations? This is only tangentially related to xGW but I thought you might find it intriguing. A while back I thought about the transition between generations of warfare after reading your posts on the subject. I was hoping that any overlap between the previous incarnations would help illuminate 5GW, sort of like Abbot’s use of 2D-3D ineraction in Flatland to conceptualize higher dimensions. Well when I went about my search, for some reason I thought of fractal dimensions instead of generations. So I googled “fractal war” and came across a French urbanist named Paul Virilio. He has some original ideas about the future of war with his conception of what he calls the integral accident and calling the First Gulf War a fractal war, i.e. one that was at once local and global. Virilio gave an interview with Armitage over at ctheory.net

http://www.ctheory.net/articles.aspx?id=132

How do you think the dimensions of war both physical and perceptual play out in each of the generations?

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