<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/a6fa3cdd-15b3-4108-815c-76ed05255221/221BF0A9-00C0-4694-8AEA-99982D83BC7B/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://bldgblog.blogspot.com/2009/06/infrastructural-anxiety.html" href="http://bldgblog.blogspot.com/2009/06/infrastructural-anxiety.html" style="font-size: 11px;">bldgblog.blogspot.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://bldgblog.blogspot.com/2009/06/infrastructural-anxiety.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/bldgblog.blogspot.com/img/83A36DB6-5746-48F7-8B43-8488EC08AD65" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://bldgblog.blogspot.com/2009/06/infrastructural-anxiety.html">a political microhistory of the European train station – and someone could very easily get a PhD out of such a scenario: <I>The Train Shed as Depicted in Film, Games, and Literature: An Architecture of Encounter</I>. </blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://bldgblog.blogspot.com/2009/06/infrastructural-anxiety.html">the European train station – and train travel more generally – as a threatening bastion of non-white otherness that has infiltrated the modern city. <I>Moroccans</I>, after all, live near certain train stations... and Muslims sometimes ride those very trains... <BR />"Moreover," Rotella points out, "train stations tend to be in working-class immigrant areas where desperadoes find shelter, weapons, false documents and other tools of the trade. The <A target="_blank" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brussels-South_railway_station">Gare du Midi</A>, on the southern edge of downtown Brussels, is a good example.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://bldgblog.blogspot.com/2009/06/infrastructural-anxiety.html"> "trains and their stations have played a key role in modern-day plotting and attacks by Islamic terrorists."<BR />Of course, Mike Davis's recent <A href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1844672948?ie=UTF8&tag=bldgblog-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=1844672948">history of car bombs</A> might offer a slightly different take</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://bldgblog.blogspot.com/2009/06/infrastructural-anxiety.html">Osama bin Laden is</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://bldgblog.blogspot.com/2009/06/infrastructural-anxiety.html">securing more funding for <A target="_blank" href="http://www.infrastructurist.com/2009/06/18/congressman-amtrak-is-fascist/">Amtrak</A>. </blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/221BF0A9-00C0-4694-8AEA-99982D83BC7B/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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