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From above : war, violence, and verticality / Peter Adey, Mark Whitehead, Alison Williams. [electronic resource]
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Critical war studies series.
- Critical war studies series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Air warfare--Case studies.
- Air warfare.
- Air power--Case studies.
- Air power.
- Visual perception--Political aspects.
- Visual perception.
- Perspective (Philosophy).
- War (Philosophy).
- Militarism.
- Violence.
- Human territoriality.
- National security.
- Geopolitics.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (x, 376 pages).
- Other Title:
- From above
- Critical war studies series
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Oxford University Press, 2013.
- Summary:
- The arrival of the aerostatic balloon at the end of the nineteenth century ushered in a new perspective on the battlefield, taking over from the mount - the hill at the edge of the field of combat - and the fortified tower positioned within it. Since then there has been no perspective more culpable in war, violence, and security than the aerial one. This book explores the aerial view in new depth and clarity. It draws in vivid detail on studies of the aerial perspective today and on rich empirical investigations of the aerial view from the past.
- Contents:
- Introduction: Visual Culture and Verticality / Peter Adey, Mark Whitehead and Alison Williams
- SECTION ONE. SCIENCE, MILITARISM AND DISTANCE
- The Balloon Prospect : Aerostatic Observation and the Emergence of Militarised Aeromobility / Caren Kaplan
- Lines of Descent / Derek Gregory
- Aerial Surveying, Geopolitical Competition and the Falkland Islands Dependency Aerial Survey Expedition (FIDASE 1955/7) / Klaus Dodds and Royal Hollowa
- Networks, Nodes and De-Territorialised Battlespace : The Scopic Regime of Rapid Dominance / Martin Coward
- Photomosaics : Mapping the Front, Mapping the City / Paul K. Saint-Amour
- SECTION TWO. AERIAL AESTHETICS, DISTORTION AND THE VIEW FROM BELOW
- "Concealing the Crude" : Airmindedness and the Camouflaging of Britain's Oil Installations, 1936/9 / James Robinson
- Flying into the Unknown : Cinematic Cultures of War and the Aesthetics of Disappearance / John Armitage
- Project Transparent Earth and the Autoscopy of Aerial Targeting : The Visual Geopolitics of the Underground / Ryan Bishop
- AFP-731 or The Other Night Sky : An Allegory / Trevor Paglen
- SECTION THREE. FROM CLOSE TO REMOTE
- The Pain of Love : The Invention of Aerial Surveillance in British Iraq / Priya Satia
- Targeting Affective Life From Above : Morale and Airpower / Ben Anderson
- Ecologies of the Wayward Drone / Jordan Crandall
- Satellite Images, Security and the Geopolitical Imagination / David Campbell.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
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