It’s time to explain. When I first started this blog (over a year ago) I registered it with Eatonweb and gave my physical location as being Western Sahara. Since then, nearly not a day has gone by without receiving some visit through this directory. After all, it is the only one! And recently I’ve been getting traffic from a German blog, seemingly bemused to find situationist theory discussed from deep within the desert…

While these days I am both fascinated and stimulated by the potentials implicit in embedding the web in the physical plane, I also still believe in the Internet residing out of space, existing as a laboratory where gender and geography can be subverted, a (non)place of play and symbol.

When this blog began I was not interested in binding it to London E18 (where I lived at the time – I now reside in northern Italy).

But the choice of Western Sahara was not a random act. As an act of digital poetics I placed Notes from Somewhere Bizarre out in the middle of nowhere, far away from the power nodes and consumption hubs of the global ghetto, where it could claim a nomadic ancestry, on the extreme border of the Empire, sandwiched between a desert of water and an ocean of sand, in a place few have heard of, where the landmines don’t make the headlines, and its conflict is forgotten together with its refugee camps.