The National Security Sublime
On the Aesthetics of Government Secrecy
1st Edition
Published on 27. March 2019
204 pages
978-0-429-55451-3 (ISBN)
Description
Why do recent depictions of government secrecy and surveillance so often use images suggesting massive size and scale: gigantic warehouses, remote black sites, numberless security cameras? Drawing on post-War American art, film, television, and fiction, Matthew Potolsky argues that the aesthetic of the sublime provides a privileged window into the nature of modern intelligence, a way of describing the curiously open secret of covert operations. The book tracks the development of the national security sublime from the Cold War to the War on Terror, and places it in a long history of efforts by artists and writers to represent political secrecy.
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Series
Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Illustrations
20 Halftones, black and white; 20 Illustrations, black and white
File size
5,42 MB
ISBN-13
978-0-429-55451-3 (9780429554513)
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Content
1. Defining the National Security Sublime 2. Toward an Aesthetics of Government Secrecy 3. The Genesis and Structure of the National Security Sublime 4. The Sublime Under the War on Terror 5. The Secret Without a Subject
