Cold War Legacies: Legacy, Theory, Aesthetics

John Beck; Ryan Bishop

Published by Edinburgh University Press 2016

Cold War Legacies

Legacy, Theory, Aesthetics

John Beck and Ryan Bishop

In the series Technicities

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781474409490

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About this book

Connects Cold War material and conceptual technologies to 21st century arts, society and culture

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 live in a world imagined and engineered during the Cold War.

Key Features

Makes connections between Cold War material and conceptual technologies, as they relate to the arts, society and culture
Draws on theorists such as Paul Virilio, Jacques Derrida, Luce Irigaray, Friedrich Kittler, Jean Baudrillard, Michel Foucault, Michel Serres, Bernard Stiegler, Peter Sloterdijk and Carl Schmitt
The contributors include leading humanities and critical military studies scholars, and practising artists, writers, curators and broadcasters

Contributors

John Beck is Professor of Modern Literature and Director of the Institute for Modern and Contemporary Culture at the University of Westminster, London.

Ryan Bishop is Professor of Global Arts and Politics, Director of Research and Co-Director of the Winchester Centre for Global Futures in Art Design & Media at the Winchester School of Art, University of Southampton.

Ele Carpenter is a curator and writer, and senior lecturer in MFA Curating and convenor of the Nuclear Culture Research Group at Goldsmiths, University of London.

Fabienne Collignon is Lecturer in Contemporary Literature at the University of Sheffield.

Mark Coté is Lecturer in Digital Culture and Society at King’s College London.

Daniel Grausam is Lecturer in the Department of English at Durham University.

Ken Hollings is a writer and broadcaster, visiting tutor at the Royal College of Art and Associate Lecturer at Central Saint Martins School of Art and Design.

Adrian Mackenzie is Professor of Technological Cultures at Lancaster University.

Jussi Parikka is a media theorist and writer, and Professor of Technological Culture and Aesthetics at Winchester School of Art, University of Southampton.

John W. P. Phillips is Associate Professor in the Department of English at the National University of Singapore.

Adam Piette is Professor of English at the University of Sheffield.

James Purdon is Lecturer in Modern and Contemporary Literature at the University of St Andrews.

Aura Satz is an artist and Moving Image Tutor at the Royal College of Art.

Neal White is an artist and Professor of Media Art at the Faculty of Media and Communication, Bournemouth University.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
List of Figures Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Series Editors’ Preface Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
Acknowledgements Publicly Available Download PDF	x
Notes on Contributors Publicly Available Download PDF	xi
Introduction: The Long Cold War John Beck and Ryan Bishop Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
I Pattern Recognition
1 The Future: RAND, Brand and Dangerous to Know John Beck Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	35
2 Simulate, Optimise, Partition: Algorithmic Diagrams of Pattern Recognition from 1953 Onwards Adrian Mackenzie Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	50
3 Impulsive Synchronisation: A Conversation on Military Technologies and Audiovisual Arts Aura Satz and Jussi Parikka Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	70
II The Persistence of the Nuclear
4 The Meaning of Monte Bello James Purdon Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	85
5 Deep Geological Disposal and Radioactive Time: Beckett, Bowen, Nirex and Onkalo Adam Piette Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	102
6 Shifting the Nuclear Imaginary: Art and the Flight from Nuclear Modernity Ele Carpenter Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	116
7 Alchemical Transformations? Fictions of the Nuclear State after 1989 Daniel Grausam Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	134
III Ubiquitous Surveillance
8 ‘The Very Form of Perverse Artificial Societies’: The Unstable Emergence of the Network Family from its Cold War Nuclear Bunker Ken Hollings Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	151
9 The Signal-Haunted Cold War: Persistence of the SIGINT Ontology Jussi Parikka Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	167
10 ‘Bulk Surveillance’, or The Elegant Technicities of Metadata Mark Coté Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	188
IV Pervasive Mediations
11 Notes from the Underground: Microwaves, Backbones, Party Lines and the Post Office Tower John W. P. Phillips Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	213
12 Insect Technics: War Vision Machines Fabienne Collignon Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	234
13 Overt Research Neal White and John Beck Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	252
14 Smart Dust and Remote Sensing: The Political Subject in Autonomous Systems Ryan Bishop Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	273
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	289

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Language: English
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Audience: College/higher education;
Pages
- Main content: 320
Illustrations
- Other: 20 illustrations
Keywords: Philosophy

eBook

Published: August 16, 2016
ISBN: 9781474409490