This book analyses the operation of current state-of-the-art
military technology and the experimental art, music and writing of
the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. Modernist
aesthetics renders clearer the operations of the vast surveillance
and killing machines of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. A
basic aim of visual technologies is to collapse the sphere of
perception with that of the perceived object. Modernist aesthetics,
working the same terrain, shows that there always remains an
irreducible element of time and space. Military technology tends
towards the impossible goal of eliminating this dimension, while
modernist aesthetics exploits it. Placing military operations
alongside modernist aesthetics reveals the civic sphere suspended
between two incompatible desires. Through close readings of the art
and writing of Djuna Barnes, Joseph Conrad, Marcel Duchamp, James
Joyce, Mina Loy, Stephane Mallarme, the Italian Futurists and H. G.
Wells alongside the Apache attack helicopters, Network-Centric
Warfare, satellites, decoys, sirens and radios, the chapters
address issues such as: targetting, 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 * Provides original and 'groundbreaking' readings of
modernist art, literature, music, poetics and aesthetics * Gives a
valuable and provocative reading of the avant-garde * Contributes
to a new understanding of both military technics and modernist
aesthetics
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