War and Aesthetics - Art, Technology, and the Futures of Warfare

A provocative edited collection that takes an original approach toward the black box of military technology, surveillance, and AI--and reveals the aesthetic dimension of warfare. People mostly think of war as the violent manifestation of a political rationality. But when war is viewed through the lens of Contributors Louise Amoore, Ryan Bishop, Jens Bjering, James Der Derian, Anthony Downey, Anders Engberg-Pedersen, Solveig Gade, Mark B. Hansen, Caroline Holmqvist, Vivienne Jabri, Caren Kaplan, Phil Klay, Kate McLoughlin, Elaine Scarry, Christine Strandmose Toft, Joseph Vogl, Arkadi Zaides...

List of contents

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

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

Product details

• Authors: Jens Bjering, Anders Engberg-Pedersen, Engberg-Pedersen Anders, Sol Gade, Solveig Gade, Christine Strandmose Toft
• Publisher: The MIT Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 09.07.2024
• EAN: 9780262048736
• ISBN: 978-0-262-04873-6
• No. of pages: 334
• Dimensions: 187 mm x 237 mm x 23 mm
• Series: Prisms: Humanities and War
• Subjects: Education and learning > Teaching preparation > Vocational needs; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory, ART / Art & Politics, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Military Science, Politics & government, Political science and theory