Barbed Wire: an ecology of modernity
Hello, I hope you’re all having a good summer!
I just wanted to mention a really great book by Reviel Netz called Barbed Wire: an ecology of modernity, which takes the invention, development, and use of barbed wire in agriculture, on the battlefield, and in prison camps as a case study to talk about the ways in which modernity saw big changes in how movement is allowed and prevented, the control of our bodies in space,