Pip Thornton shares her 2015 paper on battlefield terrain – strong connections to my work on terrain and the Gordillo paper I shared earlier this week.
I haven’t always written about algorithms and digital capitalism, but I have previously used poetry as a lens through which to expose the politics and asymmetries of technology and space. The Meaning of Light: Seeing and Being on the Battlefield (cultural geographies Vol: 22 issue: 4) is a paper I published in 2015 based on my experiences as a reservist soldier in Iraq in 2003. It’s about vision, affect, bodies, materiality and the (often imperial) politics of terrain on the battlefield. It all started with a poem I wrote about watching illuminating shells lighting up Basra before an artillery attack.
Light Discipline (2013)
In a blackout we adjust our sights
by touch and cup our smoke against
the desert, waiting for the light.
At long last the barrel scrapes
into place and the night is instantly
exposed. I cover my ears and watch.
In the distance a fitful city crouches,
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