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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
About the author
Jens Bjering earned his PhD at the University of Copenhagen with a thesis on post-9/11 US torture and is now a consultant at the Royal Danish Defence College.
Anders Engberg-Pedersen is Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Southern Denmark, Chair of Humanities at the Danish Institute for Advanced Studies, and series editor of Prisms: Humanities and War (MIT Press). He is the author of Martial Aesthetics: How War Became an Art Form.
Solveig Gade is Associate Professor of Theatre and Performance Studies in the Department of Arts and Cultural Studies at the University of Copenhagen and coeditor of (W)archives: Archival Imaginaries, War, and Contemporary Art.
Christine Strandmose Toft holds a PhD in Comparative Literature. She earned her degree at the Department for the Study of Culture, University of Southern Denmark, with a thesis on the representations of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan in fiction.
