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  1. Insurgent aesthetics
    security and the queer life of the forever war
    Published: 2019
    Publisher:  Duke University Press, Durham ; London

    "In Insurgent Aesthetics Ronak K. Kapadia theorizes the world-making power of contemporary art responses to US militarism in the Greater Middle East. He traces how new forms of remote killing, torture, confinement, and surveillance have created a... more

    Bayerische Staatsbibliothek
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    "In Insurgent Aesthetics Ronak K. Kapadia theorizes the world-making power of contemporary art responses to US militarism in the Greater Middle East. He traces how new forms of remote killing, torture, confinement, and surveillance have created a distinctive post-9/11 infrastructure of racialized state violence. Linking these new forms of violence to the history of American imperialism and conquest, Kapadia shows how Arab, Muslim, and South Asian diasporic multimedia artists force a reckoning with the US War on Terror's violent destruction and its impacts on immigrant and refugee communities. Drawing on an eclectic range of visual, installation, and performance works, Kapadia reveals queer feminist decolonial critiques of the US security state that visualize subjugated histories of US militarism and make palpable what he terms "the sensorial life of empire." In this way, these artists forge new aesthetic and social alliances that sustain critical opposition to the global war machine and create alternative ways of knowing and feeling beyond the forever war"--

     

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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    ISBN: 9781478004011; 1478004010; 9781478003717; 1478003715
    Series: Art history publication initiative
    Subjects: Militär <Motiv>; Muslim; Künstler; Krieg <Motiv>; Einwanderer; Araber; Südasiaten
    Other subjects: Militarism / Social aspects / Middle East / In art; Militarism / Social aspects / South Asia / In art; Multimedia (Art) / Middle East / 21st century; Multimedia (Art) / South Asia / 21st century; Drone aircraft / Social aspects / In art; War in art; Art, Modern / 21st century; United States / Foreign relations / Middle East / In art; Art, Modern; Multimedia (Art); War in art; Middle East; South Asia; United States; 2000-2099
    Scope: xiii, 334 Seiten, 16 ungezählte Seiten Bildtafeln, 23 cm
    Notes:

    Sensuous affiliations: security, terror, and the queer calculus of the forever war -- Up in the air: US aerial power and the visual life of empire in the drone age -- On the skin: drone warfare, collateral damage, and the human terrain -- Empire's innards: conjuring 'warm data' in archives of US global military detention -- Palestine(s) in the sky: visionary aesthetics and queer cosmic utopias from the frontiers of US empire -- Scaling empire: insurgent aesthetics in the wilds of imperial decline