Modernist Avant-Garde Aesthetics and Contemporary Military Technology: Technicities of Perception

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Examines the tensions between the aims of military technology and modernist aesthetics in relation to perception.A basic aim of visual technologies is to collapse perception with the perceived object. Modernist aesthetics shows that an irreducible element of time and space always remains. Military technology tends towards the impossible goal of eliminating this dimension; modernist aesthetics exploits it. Placing military operations alongside modernist...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0748643192

ISBN13:9780748643196

Release Date:September 2011

Publisher:Edinburgh University Press

Length:248 Pages

Weight:0.85 lbs.

Dimensions:0.7" x 6.1" x 9.1"

Grade Range:Postsecondary and higher

Related Subjects

Art Arts, Music & Photography Engineering Philosophy Technology

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