BEWARE OF THE TECHNOCRATS!
Today I went to a job talk for the geography department given by Jason VanHorn (from Ohio State University) on "Geovisualizing Terror: The Geography of Terrorism"
He used his cartographic expertise to create various GSI models of possible terrorism targets and also matched those to the perceived places of terror threat (through a survey given to Ohio residents) along with a lot of other junk I didn't really understand. What i did understand is that businesses (shopping malls to be precise) are definitely a vulnerable place, both perceived and actual in the Ohio region...
It was a whole new discourse for me (unfortunately probably not so new for our government) and I couldn't help but just laugh at the absurdity of it all throughout his entire presentation. All these mathmatical models, all this "expertise" and yet so very very much to be questioned...
He used his cartographic expertise to create various GSI models of possible terrorism targets and also matched those to the perceived places of terror threat (through a survey given to Ohio residents) along with a lot of other junk I didn't really understand. What i did understand is that businesses (shopping malls to be precise) are definitely a vulnerable place, both perceived and actual in the Ohio region...
It was a whole new discourse for me (unfortunately probably not so new for our government) and I couldn't help but just laugh at the absurdity of it all throughout his entire presentation. All these mathmatical models, all this "expertise" and yet so very very much to be questioned...
posted by Sara at 1:12 PM
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I, for one, plan to avoid malls in Ohio.
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