Ryan Bishop, John Phillips

Modernist Avant-Garde Aesthetics and Contemporary Military Technology (eBook, PDF)

Technicities of Perception

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Produktbeschreibung

Examines the tensions between the aims of military technology and modernist aesthetics in relation to perception.A basic aim of visual technologies is to collapse perception with the perceived object. Modernist aesthetics shows that an irreducible element of time and space always remains. Military technology tends towards the impossible goal of eliminating this dimension; modernist aesthetics exploits it. Placing military operations alongside modernist aesthetics reveals the civic sphere suspended between two incompatible desires.Reading the art and writing of Djuna Barnes, Joseph Conrad, Marcel Duchamp, James Joyce, Mina Loy, Stephane Mallarme, the Italian Futurists and H. G. Wells against Apache attack helicopters, Network-Centric Warfare, satellites, decoys, sirens and radios, this book addresses issues such as targeting, surveillance, visibility and the invisible, broadcast and media, the military body, diasporas, geopolitics and beauty.Key Features* An important contribution to the increasingly important interdisciplinary field of war studies* Original and 'groundbreaking' readings of modernist art, literature, music, poetics and aesthetics* A valuable and provocative new reading of the avant-garde* Contributes to a new understanding of both military technics and modernist aesthetics

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. März 2010
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780748672608
• Artikelnr.: 72430296

Autorenporträt

Ryan Bishop is Professor of Global Arts and Politics and Co-director of the research group Archaeologies of Media and Technology at the Winchester School of Art, University of Southampton, United Kingdom. He co-edits the journal Cultural Politics (Duke UP), and is a series editor for Technicities (Edinburgh University Press) and Cultural Politics (Duke UP). John Phillips is Associate Professor in the Department of English Language and Literature at the National University of Singapore. He is the author of Contested Knowledge: A Guide to Critical Theory (Zed, 2000), co-editor, with Ryan Bishop and Wei-Wei Yeo, of Beyond Description: Space Historicity Singapore (Routledge, 2004), co-editor, with Ryan Bishop and Wei-Wei Yeo, of Postcolonial Urbanism: Southeast Asian Cities and Global Processes (Routledge 2003), and co-editor, with Lyndsey Stonebridge, of Reading Melanie Klein (Routledge, 1998).

Inhaltsangabe

Section 1: Aesthetics, Poetics, Prosthetics
1. The Slow and the Blind: Unhinging the Senses to Harness Them
2. Sighted Weapons and Modernist Opacity: Aesthetics, Poetics, Prosthetics
3. We Make it Beautiful
4. We Don't Make it Beautiful
Section 2: Broadcast, Hinge, Emergency
5. Ventriloquism, Broadcast and Technologies of Narrative
6. The Curious Logic of the Hinge
7. Manufacturing Emergencies
8. Among the Blind and the Delay
Section 3: Surveillance, Targeting, Containment
9. Strategies and Technologies of Containment: Unmanning the Homeland and Containing the Political
10. Scoping Out
11. Satellites of Love and War.