Modernist avant-garde aesthetics and contemporary military technology :
General Material Designation
[Book]
Other Title Information
technicities of perception /
First Statement of Responsibility
Ryan Bishop and John Phillips
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.
Edinburgh :
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
Edinburgh University Press,
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
c2010
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item
ix, 238 p. :
Other Physical Details
ill. ;
Dimensions
25 cm
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
Text of Note
Includes bibliographical references and index
CONTENTS NOTE
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Aesthetics, poetics, prostehtics. The slow and the blind : unhinging the senses to harness them ; Sighted weapons and modernist opacity : aesthetics, poetics, prosthetics ; We make it beautiful ; We don't make it beautiful -- Broadcast, hinge, emergency. Ventriloquism, broadcast and technologies of narrative ; The military body and the curious logic of the hinge ; Manufacturing emergencies ; Among the blind and the delay -- Surveillance, targeting, containment. Strategies and technologies of containment : containing the political ; Scoping out ; Satellites of love and war
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TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Aesthetics, Modern
Military art and science-- Technological innovations