War and Aesthetics: Art, Technology, and the Futures of Warfare

Bjering, Jens, Engberg-Pedersen, Anders, Gade, Solveig

War and Aesthetics: Art, Technology, and the Futures of Warfare
  • 出版商: MIT
  • 出版日期: 2024-06-18
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  • 語言: 英文
  • 頁數: 334
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  • ISBN: 0262048736
  • ISBN-13: 9780262048736

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商品描述

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-Pedersen, Solveig Gade, and Christine Strandmose Toft, this timely volume examines warfare through the lens of aesthetics, arguing that the aesthetic configurations of perception, technology, and time are central to the artistic engagement with warfare, just as they are key to military AI, weaponry, and satellite surveillance.

People mostly think of war as the violent manifestation of a political rationality. But when war is viewed through the lens of aesthesis--meaning perception and sensibility--military technology becomes an applied science of sensory cognition. An outgrowth of three war seminars that took place in Copenhagen between 2018 and 2021, War and Aesthetics engages in three main areas of inquiry--the rethinking of aesthetics in the field of art and in the military sphere; the exploration of techno-aesthetics and the wider political and theoretical implications of war technology; and finally, the analysis of future temporalities that these technologies produce. The editors gather various traditions and perspectives ranging from literature to media studies to international relations, creating a unique historical and scientific approach that broadly traces the entanglement of war and aesthetics across the arts, social sciences, and humanities from ancient times to the present. As international conflict looms between superpowers, War and Aesthetics presents new and illuminating ways to think about future conflict in a world where violence is only ever a few steps away.

Contributors
Louise Amoore, Ryan Bishop, Jens Bjering, James Der Derian, Anthony Downey, Anders Engberg-Pedersen, Solveig Gade, Mark B. Hansen, Caroline Holmqvist, Vivienne Jabri, Caren Kaplan, Phil Klay, Kate McLoughlin, Elaine Scarry, Christine Strandmose Toft, Joseph Vogl, Arkadi Zaides

商品描述(中文翻譯)

一本挑釁性的編輯合集，以原創的方式探討軍事科技、監控與人工智慧的黑箱，並揭示戰爭的美學面向。《戰爭與美學》匯聚了領先的藝術家、政治學家和學者，勾勒出戰爭的美學維度，並提供對其當代特徵及未來潛力建構的新視角。這本及時的著作由四位學者 Jens Bjering、Anders Engberg-Pedersen、Solveig Gade 和 Christine Strandmose Toft 編輯，通過美學的視角來檢視戰爭，主張感知、科技和時間的美學配置對於藝術參與戰爭至關重要，正如它們對軍事人工智慧、武器和衛星監控的關鍵性。

人們通常將戰爭視為政治理性的暴力表現。然而，當從（意指感知與敏感性）的角度來看待戰爭時，軍事科技便成為感官認知的應用科學。《戰爭與美學》是2018年至2021年間在哥本哈根舉行的三場戰爭研討會的延伸，涉及三個主要研究領域：重新思考藝術領域及軍事領域的美學；探索科技美學及戰爭科技的更廣泛政治與理論意涵；以及分析這些科技所產生的未來時間性。編輯們匯集了從文學到媒體研究再到國際關係的各種傳統與觀點，創造出一種獨特的歷史與科學方法，廣泛追溯戰爭與美學在古代至今的交織。隨著超級大國之間的國際衝突日益迫近，《戰爭與美學》提供了思考未來衝突的新穎且啟發性的方式，在這個暴力隨時可能發生的世界中。

貢獻者：
Louise Amoore、Ryan Bishop、Jens Bjering、James Der Derian、Anthony Downey、Anders Engberg-Pedersen、Solveig Gade、Mark B. Hansen、Caroline Holmqvist、Vivienne Jabri、Caren Kaplan、Phil Klay、Kate McLoughlin、Elaine Scarry、Christine Strandmose Toft、Joseph Vogl、Arkadi Zaides

作者簡介

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.

作者簡介(中文翻譯)

Jens Bjering 在哥本哈根大學獲得博士學位，論文主題為 9/11 之後美國的酷刑，現在是丹麥皇家國防學院的顧問。

Anders Engberg-Pedersen 是南丹麥大學比較文學教授，丹麥高級研究院人文學科主席，以及系列編輯《Prisms: Humanities and War》（MIT Press）。他是《Martial Aesthetics: How War Became an Art Form.》的作者。

Solveig Gade 是哥本哈根大學藝術與文化研究系的戲劇與表演研究副教授，並且是《(W)archives: Archival Imaginaries, War, and Contemporary Art.》的共同編輯。

Christine Strandmose Toft 擁有比較文學的博士學位。她在南丹麥大學文化研究系獲得學位，論文主題為小說中對伊拉克和阿富汗戰爭的表現。

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