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Modernist Avant-Garde Aesthetics and Contemporary Military Technology: Technicities of Perception

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By (author): John Phillips Ryan Bishop

Examines the tensions between the aims of military technology and modernist aesthetics in relation to perception. A basic aim of visual technologies is to collapse perception with the perceived object. Modernist aesthetics shows that an irreducible element of time and space always remains. Military technology tends towards the impossible goal of eliminating this dimension; modernist aesthetics exploits it. Placing military operations alongside modernist aesthetics reveals the civic sphere suspended between two incompatible desires. Reading the art and writing of Djuna Barnes, Joseph Conrad, Marcel Duchamp, James Joyce, Mina Loy, Stephane Mallarme, the Italian Futurists and H. G. Wells against Apache attack helicopters, Network-Centric Warfare, satellites, decoys, sirens and radios, this book addresses issues such as targeting, 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 * Original and 'groundbreaking' readings of modernist art, literature, music, poetics and aesthetics * A valuable and provocative new reading of the avant-garde * Contributes to a new understanding of both military technics and modernist aesthetics See more
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Product Details
  • Weight: 391g
  • Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
  • Publication Date: 30 Sep 2011
  • Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
  • Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9780748643196

About John PhillipsRyan Bishop

Ryan Bishop is Professor of Global Arts and Politics at Winchester School of Art the University of Southampton. He is the editor of Baudrillard Now: Current Perspectives in Baudrillard Studies (Polity Press 2009) co-editor with John Phillips and Wei-Wei Yeo of Beyond Description: Space Historicity Singapore (Routledge 2004) co-editor with John Phillips and Wei-Wei Yeo of Postcolonial Urbanism: Southeast Asian Cities and Global Processes (Routledge 2003) and author with Lillian Robinson of Night Market: Sexual Cultures and the Thai Economic Miracle (Routledge 1998). John Phillips is Associate Professor in the Department of English Language and Literature at the National University of Singapore. He is the author of Contested Knowledge: A Guide to Critical Theory (Zed 2000) co-editor with Ryan Bishop and Wei-Wei Yeo of Beyond Description: Space Historicity Singapore (Routledge 2004) co-editor with Ryan Bishop and Wei-Wei Yeo of Postcolonial Urbanism: Southeast Asian Cities and Global Processes (Routledge 2003) and co-editor with Lyndsey Stonebridge of Reading Melanie Klein (Routledge 1998).

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