Kapadia Ronak K. Kapadia

Insurgent Aesthetics (eBook, PDF)

Security and the Queer Life of the Forever War

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Produktbeschreibung

In Insurgent Aesthetics Ronak K. Kapadia theorizes the world-making power of contemporary art responses to US militarism in the Greater Middle East. He traces how new forms of remote killing, torture, confinement, and surveillance have created a distinctive post-9/11 infrastructure of racialized state violence. Linking these new forms of violence to the history of American imperialism and conquest, Kapadia shows how Arab, Muslim, and South Asian diasporic multimedia artists force a reckoning with the US war on terror's violent destruction and its impacts on immigrant and refugee communities. Drawing on an eclectic range of visual, installation, and performance works, Kapadia reveals queer feminist decolonial critiques of the US security state that visualize subjugated histories of US militarism and make palpable what he terms "e;the sensorial life of empire."e; In this way, these artists forge new aesthetic and social alliances that sustain critical opposition to the global war machine and create alternative ways of knowing and feeling beyond the forever war.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 368
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Oktober 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781478004639
• Artikelnr.: 66282537

Autorenporträt

Ronak K. Kapadia

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments  vii
Introduction. Sensuous Affiliations: Security, Terror, and the Queer
Calculus of the Forever War  1
1. Up in the Air: US Aerial Power and the Visual Life of Empire in the
Drone Age  44
2. On the Skin: Drone Warfare, Collateral Damage, and the Human Terrain  76
3. Empire's Innards: Conjuring "Warm Data" in the Archives of US Global
Military Detention  103
4. Palestine(s) in the Sky: Visionary Aesthetics and Queer Cosmic Utopias
from the Frontiers of US Empire  151
Epilogue. Scaling Empire: Insurgent Aesthetics n the Wilds of Imperial
Decline  187
Notes  203
Bibliography  271
Index  321