Jordan Crandall’s UNDER FIRE mailinglist started into a new season of discourse: UNDER FIRE is an ongoing art and research project that explores militarization and political violence. It delves into the structural, symbolic, and affective dimensions of armed conflicts: the organization, representation, and materialization of war.

This time the project publishes its major contributions on a blog, which just started about a week ago with introducing the first moderator’s voice. According to the already published scedule each week another team will give an outline for the discussion by publishing texts accompanied by interventing and inserting supplements of other artists, media makers, educators, activists, political analysts, media researchers, writers, performers, cultural theorists, social scientists, architects, organizers, networkers, and other scholars and practitioners.
Example of this week’s introduction by Alain Joxe on ‘War Infrastructures‘ which will bring in JOHN ARMITAGE and PAUL N. EDWARDS / Intervention: KELLER EASTERLING (on the global industry of subtraction), RAQS MEDIA COLLECTIVE (on the act of ‘turning a deaf ear’) / Insertions: MANUEL DELANDA (on war ecologies); CHALMERS JOHNSON (on military baseworlds); SASKIA SASSEN (on territory, authority, and rights) …