Historical objects, principally from the MIT Radiation Laboratory Historian's Office, are arranged and discussed according to Walter Benjamin's (1999) historical method. Radar was invented for national defense and to remotely survey the earth and its atmosphere, but it also allows new collisions with "others." American radar was primarily developed at the Radiation Laboratory at MIT during the 1940s. Radar is presented as significant because of its progressive-catastrophic potential. Innis (1972 1951), Mumford (1970 1934), Carey (1988), Virilio (1997 1989 1986) and others are discussed as preparing an understanding of logistical media as subtle but powerful devices of cognitive, social, and political coordination that affect our experience of time and space.
This study introduces logistical media and considers one example of such-radar.
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