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Cold War/Cold World - Knowledge, Representation, and the Outside in Cold War Culture and Contemporary Art (Paperback)
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Cold War/Cold World - Knowledge, Representation, and the Outside in Cold War Culture and Contemporary Art (Paperback)
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A multidisciplinary collection of essays reflecting on Cold War
cultural tropes in film, fiction, and contemporary art, and the
models of knowledge that they imply. If the term "Cold World"
describes a world of infinite complexity, algorithmic capital, and
the technological sublime, in many ways the dread experienced
during the Cold War, when clear oppositions were laid out between
nation states, is echoed in the hall of mirrors of Cold World
globalization, where our collective consciousness is overtaken by a
flood of difference, uncertainty, and the dread of the
incomputability of this alien yet constructed world. But what is
the crime scene of the Cold World? How is it to be decrypted? Where
are its discontinuities, what is the nature of its violence? This
is to say, what is our place in this alien world and how do we even
compute the "we" that we describe ourselves to be? Given the
existential uncertainty unleashed for those who lived through the
Cold War, but whose repercussions are in many ways amplified,
relayed, and replayed in a new form for those who must now survive
what has been called the "Cold World"-that of technological
subjectivation, political malaise, cultural dysphoria, and
ecological crisis-this terrain comprises an experiential and
experimental horizon that prompts many to pose, and to stage in
myriad forms, a fundamental question: "What will we of make of
ourselves?" Cold War/Cold World documents a research project in
progress that attempts to evaluate and respond to this fundamental
shock to the system, examining attempts to render knowable,
representable, or figurable the looming threats of both Cold War
and Cold World-the common denominator being a distressed attempt to
inquire into the dynamics of a real that seems in excess over
understanding and the means of politics traditionally conceived;
and a concomitant temptation to abandon any intelligent collective
engagement in favour of a pragmatics that limits itself to
wrestling with local contingencies, or an aesthetics mesmerised by
a global sublime.
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