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Cold war legacies : systems, theory, aesthetics /
From futures research, pattern recognition algorithms, nuclear waste disposal and surveillance technologies, to smart weapons systems, contemporary fiction and art, this book shows that we are now living in a world imagined and engineered during the Cold War. Drawing on theorists such as Jean Baudri...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Edinburgh :
Edinburgh University Press,
[2016]
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| Colección: | Technicities.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- List of figures
- Series editors' preface
- Acknowledgements
- Notes on contributors. Introduction: the long Cold War / John Beck and Ryan Bishop. 1 Pattern recognition : The future : RAND, brand and dangerous to know / John Beck
- Simulate, optimise, partition: algorithmic diagrams of pattern recognition from 1953 onwards / Adrian Mackenzie
- Impulsive synchronisation: a conversation on military technologies and audiovisual arts / Aura Satz and Jussi Parikka. 2 The persistence of the nuclear : The meaning of Monte Bello / James Purdon
- Deep geological disposal and radioactive time: Beckett, Bowen, Nirex and Onkalo / Adam Piette
- Shifting the nuclear imaginary: art and the flight from nuclear modernity / Ele Carpenter
- Alchemical transformations? Fictions of the nuclear state after 1989 / Daniel Grausam. 3 Ubiquitous surveillance : "The very form of perverse artificial societies:" the unstable emergence of the network family from its Cold War nuclear bunker / Ken Hollings
- The signal-haunted Cold War: persistence of the SIGINT ontology / Jussi Parikka
- "Bulk surveillance," or the elegant technicities of metadata / Mark Coté. 4 Pervasive mediations : Notes from the underground: microwaves, backbones, party lines and the Post Office Tower / John W.P. Phillips
- Insect technics: war vision machines / Fabienne Collingnon
- Overt research / Neal White and John Beck
- Smart dust and remote sensing: the political subject in autonomous systems / Ryan Bishop. Index.