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Cold War Legacies - Systems, Theory, Aesthetics (Paperback)
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Cold War Legacies - Systems, Theory, Aesthetics (Paperback)
Series: Technicities
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Connects Cold War material and conceptual technologies to 21st
century arts, society and cultureFrom futures research, pattern
recognition algorithms, nuclear waste disposal and surveillance
technologies, to smart weapons systems, contemporary fiction and
art, this book shows that we live in a world imagined and
engineered during the Cold War. Key FeaturesMakes connections
between Cold War material and conceptual technologies, as they
relate to the arts, society and cultureDraws on theorists such as
Paul Virilio, Jacques Derrida, Luce Irigaray, Friedrich Kittler,
Jean Baudrillard, Michel Foucault, Michel Serres, Bernard Stiegler,
Peter Sloterdijk and Carl SchmittThe contributors include leading
humanities and critical military studies scholars, and practising
artists, writers, curators and broadcastersContributorsJohn Beck is
Professor of Modern Literature and Director of the Institute for
Modern and Contemporary Culture at the University of Westminster,
London.Ryan Bishop is Professor of Global Arts and Politics,
Director of Research and Co-Director of the Winchester Centre for
Global Futures in Art Design & Media at the Winchester School
of Art, University of Southampton. Ele Carpenter is a curator and
writer, and senior lecturer in MFA Curating and convenor of the
Nuclear Culture Research Group at Goldsmiths, University of London.
Fabienne Collignon is Lecturer in Contemporary Literature at the
University of Sheffield. Mark Cote is Lecturer in Digital Culture
and Society at King's College London.Daniel Grausam is Lecturer in
the Department of English at Durham University. Ken Hollings is a
writer and broadcaster, visiting tutor at the Royal College of Art
and Associate Lecturer at Central Saint Martins School of Art and
Design. Adrian Mackenzie is Professor of Technological Cultures at
Lancaster University. Jussi Parikka is a media theorist and writer,
and Professor of Technological Culture and Aesthetics at Winchester
School of Art, University of Southampton. John W. P. Phillips is
Associate Professor in the Department of English at the National
University of Singapore. Adam Piette is Professor of English at the
University of Sheffield. James Purdon is Lecturer in Modern and
Contemporary Literature at the University of St Andrews.Aura Satz
is an artist and Moving Image Tutor at the Royal College of
Art.Neal White is an artist and Professor of Media Art at the
Faculty of Media and Communication, Bournemouth University.
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