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Ronak K. Kapadia is Associate Professor of Gender and Women's Studies at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
List of contents
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
About the author
Ronak K. Kapadia is Associate Professor of Gender and Women's Studies at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
Summary
Ronak K. Kapadia examines multimedia visual art by artists from societies besieged by the US war on terror, showing how their art offers queer feminist critiques of US global warfare that forge new aesthetic and social alliances with which to sustain critical opposition to the global war machine.
