*Gothic High-Tech walls out the Favela, spies on it from above, and confronts it at gunpoint. In the meantime, the Favela straps a bomb to itself and explodes anywhere that human flesh will gather.
http://bldgblog.blogspot.com/2010/04/cities-under-siege.html
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"Graham outlines a number of dystopian scenarios here, including one in which "swarms of tiny, armed drones, equipped with advanced sensors and communicating with each other, will thus be deployed to loiter permanently above the streets, deserts, and highways" of cities around the world, moving us toward a future where "militarized techniques of tracking and targeting must permanently colonize the city landscape and the spaces of everyday life."
"In the process, any real distinction between a "homeland" and its "colonies" is irreparably blurred. Here, he quotes Michel Foucault: "A whole series of colonial models was brought back to the West, and the result was that the West could practice something resembling colonization, or an internal colonialism, on itself." If it works in Baghdad, the assumption goes, then let's try it out in Detroit.
"This is just one of many "boomerang effects" from militarized urban experiments overseas, Graham writes...."
