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The legacies of the military exist at every scale of our society, from the historic
bunkers of old military bases and tourist landmarks of earlier wars, to more
central monuments like the Pentagon and its constellation of financial towers that
serve the defense industry. While the army base epitomizes the most literal
entrenchment of military space, its sphere expands from the cordoned barracks to
the terrestrially detached orbital satellite. The spatial dimensions of military
power persist at the very core of our society on through the grandest public
infrastructure, and continue all the way to the atomized in the form of RFID tags,
biometrics, video games, GPS, and our SSNs. Suffice to say, the environment has
always been constituted by the spatial forces of military evolution, but today
hegemonic power only seeks to further erode any previous distinctions between
‘military’ and ‘civil’ space at unprecedented scales. Military space is now a
pixilated blur of infiltrating actors —wealthy and legally insulated—whose logic
poses great threat to the interfaces between ‘public’ and ‘private’, ‘human’ and
‘mechanic’, ‘transparent’ and ‘fortified’, ‘civic empowerment’ and ‘subjugation’.