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Ryan Bishop, John Phillips - Modernist Avant-Garde Aesthetics and Contemporary Military Technology, Häftad

Häftad, Engelska, 2011

Modernist Avant-Garde Aesthetics and Contemporary Military Technology

Technicities of Perception

Av Ryan Bishop, John Phillips

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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
Produktinformation
  • Utgivningsdatum: 2011-09-28
  • Mått: 156 x 234 x 15 mm
  • Vikt: 391 g
  • Format: Häftad
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 248
  • Förlag: Edinburgh University Press
  • ISBN: 9780748643196
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Ryan Bishop is Professor of Global Art and Politics at the Winchester School of Art, University of Southampton (UK) and Research Associate at Witwatersrand University (South Africa). His most recent book projects are Cold War Imaginaries: Technology, Temporality, Culture (co-edited with John Beck forthcoming 2026 Edinburgh University Press) and Technocrats of the Imagination: Art, Technology and the Military-Industrial Avant-garde (co-authored with John Beck, Duke University Press 2020). Bishop is lead editor of the journal Cultural Politics (Duke UP) and the book series associated with the journal (Duke UP) and the series “Technicities” (co-edited with Jussi Parikka, Edinburgh University Press). 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).

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