Jens Bjering, Anders Engberg-Pedersen

War and Aesthetics

Art, Technology, and the Futures of Warfare

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

"The book brings together leading contemporary thinkers of war to outline the aesthetic dimension of warfare across art, technology, and politics"--

Produktdetails

• Verlag: MIT Press Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 322
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Juni 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 179mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 952g
• ISBN-13: 9780262048736
• ISBN-10: 0262048736
• Artikelnr.: 70101810

Autorenporträt

edited by Jens Bjering, Anders Engberg-Pedersen, Solveig Gade, and Christine Strandmose Toft

Inhaltsangabe

Contents
Introduction
Part I: Art, Aesthetics, and the Everyday
1 War, Beauty, and the Trouble with Witness
2 War’s Deep Time
3 War, the Aesthetic, and the Political
4 The Fabric of War: Lace, Gender, and Everyday Militarism
5 Area Panic: Histories of “Running Amok”
6 Blurry Manifestos: Eshkol-Wachman Movement Notation and Its Militarized
Applications
Part II: Reimagining Technology
7 Eyes, Ears, Mouths: A Sensorial Military Triptych (with Satellite,
Electronic Music, and Vocoder
8 Philosophy and the Weapons of Nuclear War
9 Theorizing War: From Classical to Quantum
Part III: The Futures of War
10 The Future of Death: Algorithmic Design, Phantasmagorical Subjects, and
Drone Warfare
11 When Timing Is Decisive: Distributed Sovereignty’s Halting Problem
12 The End of Reciprocity
13 The War on Futures
Contributors
Index