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

by Ryan Bishop and John Phillips

Book Overview

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"