Cold War Legacies: Systems, Theory, Aesthetics 9781474409483, 9781474409490, 9781474409506
Systems analysis, cybernetics, information theory - form the late 1940s through the 80s, these shaped military, business
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English Pages [321] Year 2016
Table of contents :
List of Figures
Series Editors’ Preface
Acknowledgements
Notes on Contributors
Introduction The Long Cold War John Beck and Ryan Bishop
I Pattern Recognition
Chapter 1 The Future: RAND, Brand and Dangerous to Know
Chapter 2 Simulate, Optimise, Partition: Algorithmic Diagrams of Pattern Recognition from 1953 Onwards
Chapter 3 Impulsive Synchronisation: A Conversation on Military Technologies and Audiovisual Arts
II The Persistence of the Nuclear
Chapter 4 The Meaning of Monte Bello
Chapter 5 Deep Geological Disposaland Radioactive Time: Beckett, Bowen, Nirex and Onkalo
Chapter 6 Shifting the Nuclear Imaginary: Art and the Flight from Nuclear Modernity
Chapter 7 Alchemical Transformations? Fictions of the Nuclear State after 1989
III Ubiquitous Surveillance
Chapter 8 ‘The Very Form of Perverse Artificial Societies’: The Unstable Emergence of the Network Family from its Cold War Nuclear Bunker
Chapter 9 The Signal-Haunted Cold War: Persistence of the SIGINT Ontology
Chapter 10 ‘Bulk Surveillance’, or The Elegant Technicities of Metadata
IV Pervasive Mediations
Chapter 11 Notes from the Underground: Microwaves, Backbones, Party Lines and the Post Office Tower
Chapter 12 Insect Technics: War Vision Machines
Chapter 13 Overt Research
Chapter 14 Smart Dust and Remote Sensing: The Political Subject in Autonomous Systems
Index
List of Figures
Series Editors’ Preface
Acknowledgements
Notes on Contributors
Introduction The Long Cold War John Beck and Ryan Bishop
I Pattern Recognition
Chapter 1 The Future: RAND, Brand and Dangerous to Know
Chapter 2 Simulate, Optimise, Partition: Algorithmic Diagrams of Pattern Recognition from 1953 Onwards
Chapter 3 Impulsive Synchronisation: A Conversation on Military Technologies and Audiovisual Arts
II The Persistence of the Nuclear
Chapter 4 The Meaning of Monte Bello
Chapter 5 Deep Geological Disposaland Radioactive Time: Beckett, Bowen, Nirex and Onkalo
Chapter 6 Shifting the Nuclear Imaginary: Art and the Flight from Nuclear Modernity
Chapter 7 Alchemical Transformations? Fictions of the Nuclear State after 1989
III Ubiquitous Surveillance
Chapter 8 ‘The Very Form of Perverse Artificial Societies’: The Unstable Emergence of the Network Family from its Cold War Nuclear Bunker
Chapter 9 The Signal-Haunted Cold War: Persistence of the SIGINT Ontology
Chapter 10 ‘Bulk Surveillance’, or The Elegant Technicities of Metadata
IV Pervasive Mediations
Chapter 11 Notes from the Underground: Microwaves, Backbones, Party Lines and the Post Office Tower
Chapter 12 Insect Technics: War Vision Machines
Chapter 13 Overt Research
Chapter 14 Smart Dust and Remote Sensing: The Political Subject in Autonomous Systems
Index
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- John Beck and Ryan Bishop
