War and Aesthetics
Art, Technology, and the Futures of Warfare
$79.98
- Hardcover
322 pages
- Release Date
13 August 2024
Summary
A 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.
War and Aesthetics gathers 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-Peders…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780262048736 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0262048736 |
| Author: | Jens Bjering, Anders Engberg-Pedersen |
| Publisher: | MIT Press Ltd |
| Imprint: | MIT Press |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 322 |
| Release Date: | 13 August 2024 |
| Weight: | 567g |
| Dimensions: | 229mm x 178mm |
| Series: | Prisms: Humanities and War |
About The Author
Jens Bjering
Jens 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.
Anders 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 Martial Aesthetics- How War Became an Art Form.
Solveig 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 (W)archives- Archival Imaginaries, War, and Contemporary Art.
Christine 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.
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