{"id":376,"date":"2003-12-08T14:58:22","date_gmt":"2003-12-08T22:58:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edtechpost.ca\/wordpress\/2003\/12\/08\/life-and-death-simulations-and-purewar\/"},"modified":"2003-12-08T14:58:22","modified_gmt":"2003-12-08T22:58:22","slug":"life-and-death-simulations-and-purewar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scottleslie.ca\/edtechpost\/wordpress\/2003\/12\/08\/life-and-death-simulations-and-purewar\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Life and Death Simulations&#8217; and PureWar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reading Jay Cross&#8217; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.internettime.com\/blog\/archives\/001046.html\">recent post<\/a> about military simulations at the 25th annual Interservice\/Industry Training Simulation &amp; Education Conference, I was immediately reminded of a favourite critical theorist of mine from days gone by, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ctheory.net\/text_file.asp?pick=133#bio\">Paul Virilio<\/a>. I seem to remember always feeling like I was in a fugue state while reading Virilio, only ever half comprehending, never certain if it was all just highly verbose malarky or true prophecy, or both. But as I get older and the world gets inexorably stranger, concepts like his <a href=\"http:\/\/webseitz.fluxent.com\/wiki\/PureWar\">Pure War<\/a> seem less like theoretical conceits, and more like a statement of affairs. What does this have to do with educational technologies? Lots, unfortunately &#8230; &#8211; <i>SWL<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reading Jay Cross&#8217; recent post about military simulations at the 25th annual Interservice\/Industry Training Simulation &amp; Education Conference, I was immediately reminded of a favourite critical theorist of mine from days gone by, Paul Virilio. I seem to remember always feeling like I was in a fugue state while reading Virilio, only ever half comprehending, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/scottleslie.ca\/edtechpost\/wordpress\/2003\/12\/08\/life-and-death-simulations-and-purewar\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8216;Life and Death Simulations&#8217; and PureWar&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-rest"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottleslie.ca\/edtechpost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottleslie.ca\/edtechpost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottleslie.ca\/edtechpost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottleslie.ca\/edtechpost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottleslie.ca\/edtechpost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=376"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scottleslie.ca\/edtechpost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottleslie.ca\/edtechpost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottleslie.ca\/edtechpost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottleslie.ca\/edtechpost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}