jamesbridleMoving and fixing an old website, as I've been meaning to do for some time, it seems a good moment to point to the Nor, as both war and psychogeography are in the air again. Eleven years ago, shortly before leaving the city, I undertook three journeys through London...
In the first, which was violently and judicially interrupted, I attempted to walk the perimeter of the congestion zone, looking at London Walls and what surmounted them: https://shorttermmemoryloss.com/nor/2014/11/07/all-cameras-are-police-cameras/
In the second, I drove around the wide edge of the city, into the hinterland of abandoned airfields and old radar stations: https://shorttermmemoryloss.com/nor/2014/12/08/living-in-the-electromagnetic-spectrum/
And for the third, I cycled from West to East, Slough to Basildon, tracing the microwave links between datacentres, invisible at ground level, but portents of so much else to come: https://shorttermmemoryloss.com/nor/2015/01/04/low-latency/
There's a brief epilogue as well, when I completed the original walk; once more, tinged with a violence that only seems to have grown both more intense, and more infrastructural, in subsequent years: https://shorttermmemoryloss.com/nor/2015/01/08/epilogue/