Insurgent Aesthetics

Security and the Queer Life of the Forever War

Ronak K. Kapadia (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

352 Seiten

2019
Duke University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4780-0401-1 (ISBN)

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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.

Ronak K. Kapadia is Associate Professor of Gender and Women's Studies at the University of Illinois at Chicago.

Acknowledgments vii
Introduction. Sensuous Affiliations: Security, Terror, and the Queer Calculus of the Forever War 1
1. Up in the Air: US Aerial Power and the Visual Life of Empire in the Drone Age 44
2. On the Skin: Drone Warfare, Collateral Damage, and the Human Terrain 76
3. Empire's Innards: Conjuring "Warm Data" in the Archives of US Global Military Detention 103
4. Palestine(s) in the Sky: Visionary Aesthetics and Queer Cosmic Utopias from the Frontiers of US Empire 151
Epilogue. Scaling Empire: Insurgent Aesthetics n the Wilds of Imperial Decline 187
Notes 203
Bibliography 271
Index 321

Erscheinungsdatum	18.10.2019
Reihe/Serie	Art History Publication Initiative
Zusatzinfo	93 illustrations, incl. 26 color
Verlagsort	North Carolina
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	680 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-4780-0401-0 / 1478004010
ISBN-13	978-1-4780-0401-1 / 9781478004011
Zustand	Neuware