Modernist Avant-Garde Aesthetics and Contemporary Military Technology
eBook - PDF

Modernist Avant-Garde Aesthetics and Contemporary Military Technology

Technicities of Perception

  1. 248 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Modernist Avant-Garde Aesthetics and Contemporary Military Technology

Technicities of Perception

About this book

Examines the tensions between the aims of military technology and modernist aesthetics in relation to perception. Newly available in paperback.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Copyright
  3. Contents
  4. Acknowledgements
  5. List of Figures
  6. Part I Aesthetics, Poetics, Prosthetics
  7. Chapter 1 The Slow and the Blind: Unhinging the Senses to Harness Them
  8. Chapter 2 Sighted Weapons and Modernist Opacity: Aesthetics, Poetics, Prosthetics
  9. Chapter 3 We Make It Beautiful
  10. Chapter 4 We Don’t Make it Beautiful
  11. Part II Broadcast, Hinge, Emergency
  12. Chapter 5 Ventriloquism, Broadcast and Technologies of Narrative
  13. Chapter 6 The Military Body and the Curious Logic of the Hinge
  14. Chapter 7 Manufacturing Emergencies
  15. Chapter 8 Among the Blind and the Delay
  16. PART III Surveillance, Targeting, Containment
  17. Chapter 9 Strategies and Technologies of Containment: Containing the Political
  18. Chapter 10 Scoping Out
  19. Chapter 11 Satellites of Love and War
  20. Index