Cold War Legacies
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- ISBN 9781474409483
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 11 Sep 2016
- Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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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.
John Beck is Professor of Modern Literature at the University of Westminster. He has published widely on American cultural politics and intellectual history in relation to literature, art and visual culture. Books include Landscape as Weapon: Cultures of Exhaustion and Refusal (2021), Technocrats of the Imagination: Art, Technology, and the Military-Industrial Avant-Garde (co-authored with Ryan Bishop, 2020), and Dirty Wars: Landscape, Power and Waste in Western American Literature (2009). Ryan Bishop is Professor of Global Art and Politics at the Winchester School of Art, University of Southampton (UK) and Research Associate at Witwatersrand University (South Africa). His most recent book projects are Cold War Imaginaries: Technology, Temporality, Culture (co-edited with John Beck forthcoming 2026 Edinburgh University Press) and Technocrats of the Imagination: Art, Technology and the Military-Industrial Avant-garde (co-authored with John Beck, Duke University Press 2020). Bishop is lead editor of the journal Cultural Politics (Duke UP) and the book series associated with the journal (Duke UP) and the series “Technicities” (co-edited with Jussi Parikka, Edinburgh University Press).
