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The National Security Sublime - On the Aesthetics of Government Secrecy (Paperback) Loot Price: R1,461
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The National Security Sublime - On the Aesthetics of Government Secrecy (Paperback): Matthew Potolsky

The National Security Sublime - On the Aesthetics of Government Secrecy (Paperback)

Matthew Potolsky

Series: Routledge Studies in Espionage and Culture

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Why do recent depictions of government secrecy and surveillance so often use images suggesting massive size and scale: gigantic warehouses, remote black sites, numberless security cameras? Drawing on post-War American art, film, television, and fiction, Matthew Potolsky argues that the aesthetic of the sublime provides a privileged window into the nature of modern intelligence, a way of describing the curiously open secret of covert operations. The book tracks the development of the national security sublime from the Cold War to the War on Terror, and places it in a long history of efforts by artists and writers to represent political secrecy.

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Imprint: Routledge
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Series: Routledge Studies in Espionage and Culture
Release date: December 2020
First published: 2019
Authors: Matthew Potolsky
Dimensions: 229 x 152 x 16mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback
Pages: 184
ISBN-13: 978-0-367-67122-8
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Barcode: 9780367671228

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