ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the memory of war and tragedy that is a survival mechanism by which one distance the overwhelming reality that the history of civilisation is shadowed by barbarism. To be haunted on a daily basis by the knowledge that the history of capitalism is a history of conquest, enslavement, robbery and murder is psychologically ruinous. In the time honoured traditions of architectural class war, it had started to rebuild schools in confiscated buildings, occupied factories, located hospitals in the homes of the rich, made their libraries public property, changed street names and toppled statues of generals and holy figures. The chapter discusses the landscapes that scream of the violent dispossession of others and unknowingly trod along a picturesque street in the docks of Rio whose cobbles hide an African graveyard. The merging of the audiovisual technologies and tactics of the modern war machine with urban life has helped create a martial landscape.
