John Phillips
Modernist Avant-Garde Aesthetics and Contemporary Military Technology: Technicities of Perception
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Modernist Avant-Garde Aesthetics and Contemporary Military TechnologyTechnicities of PerceptionRyan Bishop and John PhillipsAn intelligent, imaginative, wide-ranging and lucid work. It marks a genuinemove forward for the application of deconstruction to cultural studies. And whatis especially remarkable about the book is its stunning range of examples andcases, which include Finnegans Wake, Transformer toys, Malaysian gothicthrillers, poems by Keats and Blake, the war in Bosnia, ventriloquism, diasporaand the Cold-War, postcolonial formations in South East Asia.Professor Simon During, Department of English, Johns Hopkins UniversityA richly fa…
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Modernist Avant-Garde Aesthetics and Contemporary Military TechnologyTechnicities of PerceptionRyan Bishop and John PhillipsAn intelligent, imaginative, wide-ranging and lucid work. It marks a genuinemove forward for the application of deconstruction to cultural studies. And whatis especially remarkable about the book is its stunning range of examples andcases, which include Finnegans Wake, Transformer toys, Malaysian gothicthrillers, poems by Keats and Blake, the war in Bosnia, ventriloquism, diasporaand the Cold-War, postcolonial formations in South East Asia.Professor Simon During, Department of English, Johns Hopkins UniversityA richly fascinating, very wise book which launches a brave, telling, and at times,devastating cultural critique of the military-industrial complex. The argumentswhich praise the modernist avant-garde for its prescience and also its techniquesof resistance to war technology are startling, refreshing and brilliant.Professor Adam Piette, School of English, University of SheffieldThis book analyses the operation of current state-of-the-art military technology andthe experimental art, music and writing of the late nineteenth and early twentiethcentury. Modernist aesthetic renders clearer the operations of the vast surveillanceand killing machines of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.A basic aim of visual technologies is to collapse the sphere of perception with that ofthe perceived object. Modernist aesthetics, working the same terrain, shows that therealways remains an irreducible element of time and space. Military technology tendstowards the impossible goal of eliminating this dimension, while modernist aestheticsexploits it. Placing military operations alongside modernist aesthetics reveals the civicsphere suspended between two incompatible desires.Through close readings of the art and writing of Djuna Barnes, Joseph Conrad, Marcel Duchamp, James Joyce, Mina Loy, Stéphane Mallarmé,
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-7486-3988-5
- EAN: 9780748639885
- Produktnummer: 22672345
- Verlag: Edinburgh Univ Pr
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2010
- Seitenangabe: 238 S.
- Masse: H23.6 cm x B15.5 cm x D2.3 cm 612 g
- Gewicht: 612
- Sonstiges: Ab 22 J.
Über den Autor
Ryan Bishop is Professor of Global Arts and Politics and Co-director of the research group Archaeologies of Media and Technology at the Winchester School of Art, University of Southampton, United Kingdom. He co-edits the journal Cultural Politics (Duke UP), and is a series editor for Technicities (Edinburgh University Press) and Cultural Politics (Duke UP).John Phillips is Associate Professor in the Department of English Language and Literature at the National University of Singapore. He is the author of Contested Knowledge: A Guide to Critical Theory (Zed, 2000), co-editor, with Ryan Bishop and Wei-Wei Yeo, of Beyond Description: Space Historicity Singapore (Routledge, 2004), co-editor, with Ryan Bishop and Wei-Wei Yeo, of Postcolonial Urbanism: Southeast Asian Cities and Global Processes (Routledge 2003), and co-editor, with Lyndsey Stonebridge, of Reading Melanie Klein (Routledge, 1998).
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