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Ballistic Path Dependency
Artillery and doctrine in and out of context
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February And The Robot Boozehounds of Gimmick Marketing
A subscriber-only update on what I've been up to, and the newsletters I wrote but forgot to share last month.
Kelsey D. Atherton
Mar 14
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Funeral Rituals For Robot Dogs
Humans at war will inscribe meaning into the deaths of battlefield companion machines. We already do it for animals.
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Feb 1
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Inert? Call Bert!
Lessons for managing expectations in a long emergency from the protagonist of Duck and Cover.
Kelsey D. Atherton
Jan 18
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The Age of Empires Theory of History
In the imagined battlefields of the gamified past, there is only war.
Kelsey D. Atherton
Dec 20, 2021
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Hounds Of The Uncanny Valley Of Death
Cry biomimicry and let loose the robot dogs of war
Kelsey D. Atherton
Nov 12, 2021
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Colin Powell and the Discourse of Empire
To tell the story of the lives of figures like Powell is to repeatedly encounter all the moments in which they prioritized service to power over…
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Oct 25, 2021
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Twilight Grotesques, Aftermath Innocents
On directing violence through the unknown knowns and fogs of forever war.
Kelsey D. Atherton
Sep 24, 2021
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