If you've been reading Subtopia for a while now then this may not come as anything new since I've called attention before to these mysterious simulacrums of urban space--I'm talking about those ghostly MOUT (Military Operation on Urban Terrain) training facilities where entire pseudo landscapes and quasi architectures are designed solely for the purposes of being conquered and reconquered, over and over again to help prepare the armed forces for counter-insurgency warfare in cities abroad--life inside a simulative architectural loop; landscape as militaristic prop...

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