Cold War Legacies (eBook, PDF)

Legacy, Theory, Aesthetics
Redaktion: Beck, John; Bishop, Ryan

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

From futures research, pattern recognition algorithms, nuclear waste disposal and surveillance technologies, to smart weapons systems, contemporary fiction and art, this book shows that we are now living in a world imagined and engineered during the Cold War.

Drawing on theorists such as Jean Baudrillard, Jacques Derrida, Michel Foucault, Luce Irigaray, Friedrich Kittler, Michel Serres, Peter Sloterdijk, Carl Schmitt, Bernard Stiegler and Paul Virilio this collection makes connections between Cold War material and conceptual technologies, as they relate to the arts, society and culture.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. August 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781474409490
• Artikelnr.: 50403563

Autorenporträt

John Beck is Professor of Modern Literature and Director of the Institute for Modern and Contemporary Culture at the University of Westminster, London. He is the author of Writing the Radical Center: William Carlos Williams John Dewey, and American Cultural Politics (SUNY, 2001) and Dirty Wars: Landscape, Power, and Waste in Western American Literature (University of Nebraska Press, 2009) co-editor of American Visual Cultures (Continuum, 2005). Ryan Bishop is Professor of Global Arts and Politics and Co-director of the research group Archaeologies of Media and Technology at the Winchester School of Art, University of Southampton, United Kingdom. He co-edits the journal Cultural Politics (Duke UP), and is a series editor for Technicities (Edinburgh University Press) and Cultural Politics (Duke UP).

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
List of Illustrations
Notes on contributors
Introduction
I. Pattern Recognition: 1. The Future: RAND, Brand and Dangerous to Know
2. Simulate, Optimise, Partition: Algorithmic Diagrams of Pattern Recognition from 1953 Onwards
3. Impulsive Synchronisation: A Conversation on Military Technologies and Audiovisual Arts
II The Persistence of the Nuclear: 4. The Meaning of Monte Bello
5. Deep Geological Disposal and Radioactive Time: Beckett, Bowen, Nirex and Onkalo
6. Shifting the Nuclear Imaginary: Art and the Flight from Nuclear Modernity
7. Alchemical Transformations?: Fictions of the Nuclear State after 1989
III. Ubiquitous Surveillance: 8. 'The Very Form of Perverse Artificial Societies': The Unstable Emergence of the Network Family From its Cold War Nuclear Bunker
9. The Signal Haunted Cold War: Persistence of the SIGINT Ontology
10. 'Bulk Surveillance' or, the Elegant Technicities of Metadata
IV. Pervasive Mediations: 11. Notes from the Underground: Microwaves, Backbones, Party Lines and the Post Office Tower
12. Insect Technics: War Vision Machines
13. Overt Research
14. Smart Dust and Remote Sensing: The Political Subject in Autonomous Systems
Index.