Insurgent Aesthetics - Security and the Queer Life of the Forever War

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

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.

Product details

• Authors: Ronak K Kapadia, Ronak K. Kapadia
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.10.2019
• EAN: 9781478004011
• ISBN: 978-1-4780-0401-1
• No. of pages: 352
• Series: Art History Publication Initiative; Art History Publication Initia
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Antiques; Kunstgeschichte, Sozial- und Kulturgeschichte, Zweite Hälfte 20. Jahrhundert (1950 bis 1999 n. Chr.), Ethnic Studies, Soziale und ethische Themen