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Modernist Avant-Garde Aesthetics and Contemporary Military Technology : Technicities of Perception / Ryan Bishop, John Phillips.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2022]Copyright date: ©2010Description: 1 online resource (248 p.) : 23 B/W illustrationsContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780748639885
  • 9780748672608
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 700.105 22
LOC classification:
  • NX180.T4 B57 2010eb
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- List of Figures -- Part I. Aesthetics, Poetics, Prosthetics -- Part II. Broadcast, Hinge, Emergency -- Part III. Surveillance, Targeting, Containment -- Index
Summary: GBS_insertPreviewButtonPopup('ISBN:9780748639885);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 FeaturesAn important contribution to the increasingly important interdisciplinary field of war studies Provides original and 'groundbreaking' readings of modernist art, literature, music, poetics and aestheticsGives a valuable and provocative reading of the avant-garde,li›Contributes to a new understanding of both military technics and modernist aesthetics"
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eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - DeGruyter (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (dgr)9780748672608

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- List of Figures -- Part I. Aesthetics, Poetics, Prosthetics -- Part II. Broadcast, Hinge, Emergency -- Part III. Surveillance, Targeting, Containment -- Index

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GBS_insertPreviewButtonPopup('ISBN:9780748639885);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 FeaturesAn important contribution to the increasingly important interdisciplinary field of war studies Provides original and 'groundbreaking' readings of modernist art, literature, music, poetics and aestheticsGives a valuable and provocative reading of the avant-garde,li›Contributes to a new understanding of both military technics and modernist aesthetics"

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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