Cold War Legacies
Legacy, Theory, Aesthetics
1st Edition
Published on 16. August 2016
320 pages
978-1-4744-0949-0 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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Content
- Intro
- List of Figures
- Series Editors' Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Notes on Contributors
- Introduction The Long Cold War John Beck and Ryan Bishop
- I Pattern Recognition
- Chapter 1 The Future: RAND, Brand and Dangerous to Know
- Chapter 2 Simulate, Optimise, Partition: Algorithmic Diagrams of Pattern Recognition from 1953 Onwards
- Chapter 3 Impulsive Synchronisation: A Conversation on Military Technologies and Audiovisual Arts
- II The Persistence of the Nuclear
- Chapter 4 The Meaning of Monte Bello
- Chapter 5 Deep Geological Disposaland Radioactive Time: Beckett, Bowen, Nirex and Onkalo
- Chapter 6 Shifting the Nuclear Imaginary: Art and the Flight from Nuclear Modernity
- Chapter 7 Alchemical Transformations? Fictions of the Nuclear State after 1989
- III Ubiquitous Surveillance
- Chapter 8 'The Very Form of Perverse Artificial Societies': The Unstable Emergence of the Network Family from its Cold War Nuclear Bunker
- Chapter 9 The Signal-Haunted Cold War: Persistence of the SIGINT Ontology
- Chapter 10 'Bulk Surveillance', or The Elegant Technicities of Metadata
- IV Pervasive Mediations
- Chapter 11 Notes from the Underground: Microwaves, Backbones, Party Lines and the Post Office Tower
- Chapter 12 Insect Technics: War Vision Machines
- Chapter 13 Overt Research
- Chapter 14 Smart Dust and Remote Sensing: The Political Subject in Autonomous Systems
- Index
