{"product_id":"war-and-aesthetics-isbn-9780262048736","title":"War and Aesthetics","description":"\u003cb\u003eA provocative edited collection that takes an original approach toward the black box of military technology, surveillance, and AI—and reveals the aesthetic dimension of warfare.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eWar and Aesthetics \u003c\/i\u003egathers leading artists, political scientists, and scholars to outline the aesthetic dimension of warfare and offer a novel perspective on its contemporary character and the construction of its potential futures. Edited by a team of four scholars, Jens Bjering, Anders Engberg-Pedersen, Solveig Gade, and Christine Strandmose Toft, this timely volume examines warfare through the lens of aesthetics, arguing that the aesthetic configurations of perception, technology, and time are central to the artistic engagement with warfare, just as they are key to military AI, weaponry, and satellite surveillance.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePeople mostly think of war as the violent manifestation of a political rationality. But when war is viewed through the lens of \u003ci\u003eaesthesis\u003c\/i\u003e—meaning perception and sensibility—military technology becomes an applied science of sensory cognition. An outgrowth of three war seminars that took place in Copenhagen between 2018 and 2021, \u003ci\u003eWar and Aesthetics\u003c\/i\u003e engages in three main areas of inquiry—the rethinking of aesthetics in the field of art and in the military sphere; the exploration of techno-aesthetics and the wider political and theoretical implications of war technology; and finally, the analysis of future temporalities that these technologies produce. The editors gather various traditions and perspectives ranging from literature to media studies to international relations, creating a unique historical and scientific approach that broadly traces the entanglement of war and aesthetics across the arts, social sciences, and humanities from ancient times to the present. As international conflict looms between superpowers, \u003ci\u003eWar and Aesthetics\u003c\/i\u003e presents new and illuminating ways to think about future conflict in a world where violence is only ever a few steps away.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eContributors\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLouise Amoore, Ryan Bishop, Jens Bjering, James Der Derian, Anthony Downey, Anders Engberg-Pedersen, Solveig Gade, Mark B. Hansen, Caroline Holmqvist, Vivienne Jabri, Caren Kaplan, Phil Klay, Kate McLoughlin, Elaine Scarry, Christine Strandmose Toft, Joseph Vogl, Arkadi ZaidesContents\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003ePart I: Art, Aesthetics, and the Everyday\u003cbr\u003e1 War, Beauty, and the Trouble with Witness\u003cbr\u003e2 War’s Deep Time\u003cbr\u003e3 War, the Aesthetic, and the Political\u003cbr\u003e4 The Fabric of War: Lace, Gender, and Everyday Militarism\u003cbr\u003e5 Area Panic: Histories of “Running Amok”\u003cbr\u003e6 Blurry Manifestos: Eshkol-Wachman Movement Notation and Its Militarized Applications\u003cbr\u003ePart II: Reimagining Technology\u003cbr\u003e7 Eyes, Ears, Mouths: A Sensorial Military Triptych (with Satellite, Electronic Music, and Vocoder\u003cbr\u003e8 Philosophy and the Weapons of Nuclear War\u003cbr\u003e9 Theorizing War: From Classical to Quantum\u003cbr\u003ePart III: The Futures of War\u003cbr\u003e10 The Future of Death: Algorithmic Design, Phantasmagorical Subjects, and Drone Warfare\u003cbr\u003e11 When Timing Is Decisive: Distributed Sovereignty’s Halting Problem\u003cbr\u003e12 The End of Reciprocity\u003cbr\u003e13 The War on Futures\u003cbr\u003eContributors\u003cbr\u003eIndexJens Bjering earned his PhD at the University of Copenhagen with a thesis on post-9\/11 US torture and is now a consultant at the Royal Danish Defence College.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAnders Engberg-Pedersen is Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Southern Denmark, Chair of Humanities at the Danish Institute for Advanced Studies, and series editor of Prisms: Humanities and War (MIT Press). He is the author of \u003ci\u003eMartial Aesthetics: How War Became an Art Form.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eSolveig Gade is Associate Professor of Theatre and Performance Studies in the Department of Arts and Cultural Studies at the University of Copenhagen and coeditor of \u003ci\u003e(W)archives: Archival Imaginaries, War, and Contemporary Art.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eChristine Strandmose Toft holds a PhD in Comparative Literature. She earned her degree at the Department for the Study of Culture, University of Southern Denmark, with a thesis on the representations of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan in fiction.","brand":"The MIT Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46301630660837,"sku":"NP9780262048736","price":40.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780262048736.jpg?v=1767743590","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/war-and-aesthetics-isbn-9780262048736","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}