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Aerial Aftermaths Wartime from Above, KAPLAN, WAR ENGINEERING 2018 PBK
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Item specifics
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller Notes
- Personalize
- No
- Original Language
- English
- Features
- paperback, illustrated, maps, photos
- Genre
- War & Combat, Photography, Engineering
- Ex Libris
- No
- Book Title
- Aerial Aftermaths: Wartime from Above (Next Wave: New Directions
- Personalized
- No
- Narrative Type
- Nonfiction
- Inscribed
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- Topic
- War, Engineering, Cartography, environment damage, Geography
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- ISBN
- 9780822370178
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Duke University Press
ISBN-10
0822370174
ISBN-13
9780822370178
eBay Product ID (ePID)
234821191
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
277 Pages
Publication Name
Aerial Aftermaths : Wartime from above
Language
English
Subject
Cartography, Military Science, Human Geography, General, World, Photoessays & Documentaries, Subjects & Themes / Aerial
Publication Year
2018
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Technology & Engineering, Social Science, Photography, History
Series
Next Wave: New Directions in Women's Studies
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.7 in
Item Weight
19.1 Oz
Item Length
8.1 in
Item Width
6.6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
LCCN
2017-028530
Dewey Edition
23
Reviews
A historically astute account of becoming-aerial, Kaplan's text is a valuable, careful and nuanced contribution to a wider collection of aerially attentive interventions., Caren Kaplan's Aerial Aftermaths is the leading work in an important new crossover field between visual studies, science and technology studies, and critical theory of geography. Not since Anne Friedberg's The Virtual Window have we seen such a richly researched and theorized media archaeology of technologies of visuality. This is the account of 'objective' seeing from above that critical technoscience studies readers have been waiting for since Donna Haraway held forth against this ocular 'God trick' almost thirty years ago. Kaplan's book comes at a time when we urgently need the kind of historical insight she offers about the geopolitical and military technologics that inform the myriad contemporary global systems through which surveillance and control are enforced., Kaplan challenges the assessment that the view from above must always entail power and control, though that's often the purpose of this perspective. . . . As Kaplan shows, the view from above can be appropriated by artists and activists to challenge military claims and call attention to the suffering on the ground. She herself takes a view from higher above to critique drone warfare., [A] fascinating history which [Kaplan] illustrates with well-chosen images sprinkled throughout the text. She shows that while the aerial perspective is far from new, contemporary viewers almost always find it fresh and consider the view from the heavens to be particularly revealing., "Kaplan challenges the assessment that the view from above must always entail power and control, though that's often the purpose of this perspective. . . . As Kaplan shows, the view from above can be appropriated by artists and activists to challenge military claims and call attention to the suffering on the ground. She herself takes a view from higher above to critique drone warfare." -- Jason Pearl Public Books "[A] fascinating history which [Kaplan] illustrates with well-chosen images sprinkled throughout the text. She shows that while the aerial perspective is far from new, contemporary viewers almost always find it fresh and consider the view from the heavens to be particularly revealing." -- Neta C. Crawford H-Diplo, H-Net Reviews "An intelligent, engaging tourdeforce bringing into conversation with one another a variety of different media, images and texts, and persuading the readers through its thoughtful reconstruction and deconstruction of historical instances of allencompassing vision to learn something even about the unconscious ways they may view the world themselves." -- Laleh Khalili New Americanist "Caren Kaplan's brilliant new Aerial Aftermaths is full of quotable material . . . The author is clear that she wants to interrogate the kind of thinking that makes for grand narratives. And we are better for it. Kaplan's deconstruction of such narratives is necessarily interdisciplinary, as she impressively reads across a host of literatures in geography, history, American studies and technology/media studies, but it is especially noteworthy for bringing art historians and critics into the fold. She nimbly reads images against the grain, finding the gaps and absences and filling them with historical and critical insight." -- Timothy Barney Imago Mundi "Kaplan's erudition and deep thought emerge from every page, and her prose is as purposeful and potent as one would expect from a Duke monograph. Aerial Aftermaths is a powerful, timely and elegantly crafted book that shrewdly subverts the optics of war." -- Peter Hobbins Cultural Studies Review "Kaplan troubles both the conventional wisdom that vision from above results in the immediately legible and its opposite: that vision from above evacuates the possibility of what we can see. She compels her reader to consider the violence 'always already inherent in both desires.'" -- Jennifer Kelly Radical History Review "A historically astute account of becoming-aerial, Kaplan's text is a valuable, careful and nuanced contribution to a wider collection of aerially attentive interventions." -- Anna Jackman Postcolonial Studies "Anyone with an interest in state power, surveillance, drone theory or technology, the history of colonialism, art history, military history, or the history of visual culture would find this study enriching and challenging." -- Grace Aldridge Foster Journal of Cinema and Media Studies "[A] sweeping, richly illustrated work on the uses of aerial views in wartime aftermaths." -- Blair Stein Technology and Culture "Bringing together mapping, photography, war, and the interrogation of the aerial view, Kaplan's engaged study Aerial Aftermaths underscores the significance of that view to contemporary visual culture. Moreover, Kaplan links this account to an established critique of cartography as a form of power and more particularly an engagement with Western control over non-Western landscapes and peoples." -- Jeremy Black American Historical Review, Kaplan troubles both the conventional wisdom that vision from above results in the immediately legible and its opposite: that vision from above evacuates the possibility of what we can see. She compels her reader to consider the violence 'always already inherent in both desires.', Bringing together mapping, photography, war, and the interrogation of the aerial view, Kaplan's engaged study Aerial Aftermaths underscores the significance of that view to contemporary visual culture. Moreover, Kaplan links this account to an established critique of cartography as a form of power and more particularly an engagement with Western control over non-Western landscapes and peoples., Caren Kaplan's brilliant new Aerial Aftermaths is full of quotable material . . . The author is clear that she wants to interrogate the kind of thinking that makes for grand narratives. And we are better for it. Kaplan's deconstruction of such narratives is necessarily interdisciplinary, as she impressively reads across a host of literatures in geography, history, American studies and technology/media studies, but it is especially noteworthy for bringing art historians and critics into the fold. She nimbly reads images against the grain, finding the gaps and absences and filling them with historical and critical insight., An intelligent, engaging tour-de-force bringing into conversation with one another a variety of different media, images and texts, and persuading the readers through its thoughtful reconstruction and deconstruction of historical instances of all-encompassing vision to learn something even about the unconscious ways they may view the world themselves., Anyone with an interest in state power, surveillance, drone theory or technology, the history of colonialism, art history, military history, or the history of visual culture would find this study enriching and challenging., Caren Kaplan's Aerial Aftermaths is a brilliant and wide-ranging examination of aerial ways of seeing and the history of the technologies employed when it comes to representing that which can be observed from on high. From the exploits of early aeronauts, military mapping, and what is seen and sensed through panoramic paintings to aerial surveying as a means of colonial governance and more, Kaplan's absorbing analysis is unmatched in its depth. With far-reaching implications for the study of visual culture and, crucially, how we interrogate the violence of drones and remote warfare, Aerial Aftermaths is essential reading., An intelligent, engaging tourdeforce bringing into conversation with one another a variety of different media, images and texts, and persuading the readers through its thoughtful reconstruction and deconstruction of historical instances of allencompassing vision to learn something even about the unconscious ways they may view the world themselves., Kaplan's erudition and deep thought emerge from every page, and her prose is as purposeful and potent as one would expect from a Duke monograph. Aerial Aftermaths is a powerful, timely and elegantly crafted book that shrewdly subverts the optics of war.
Illustrated
Yes
Dewey Decimal
358.454
Table Of Content
Acknowledgments ix Introduction. Aerial Aftermaths 1 1. Surveying Wartime Aftermaths: The First Military Survey of Scotland 34 2. Balloon Geography: The Emotion of Motion in Aerostatic Wartime 68 3. La Nature à Coup d'Oeil: "Seeing All" in Early Panoramas 104 4. Mapping "Mesopotamia": Aerial Photography in Early Twentieth-Century Iraq 138 5. The Politics of the Sensible: Aerial Photography's Wartime Aftermaths 180 Afterword. Sensing Distance 207 Notes 217 Works Cited 255 Index 277
Synopsis
Caren Kaplan traces the cultural history of aerial imagery--from the first vistas provided by balloons in the eighteenth century to the sensing operations of military drones--to show how aerial imagery is key to modern visual culture and can both enforce military power and foster positive political connections., From the first vistas provided by flight in balloons in the eighteenth century to the most recent sensing operations performed by military drones, the history of aerial imagery has marked the transformation of how people perceived their world, better understood their past, and imagined their future. In Aerial Aftermaths Caren Kaplan traces this cultural history, showing how aerial views operate as a form of world-making tied to the times and places of war. Kaplan's investigation of the aerial arts of war--painting, photography, and digital imaging--range from England's surveys of Scotland following the defeat of the 1746 Jacobite rebellion and early twentieth-century photographic mapping of Iraq to images taken in the immediate aftermath of 9/11. Throughout, Kaplan foregrounds aerial imagery's importance to modern visual culture and its ability to enforce colonial power, demonstrating both the destructive force and the potential for political connection that come with viewing from above.
LC Classification Number
TA593
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