The National Security Sublime
On the Aesthetics of Government Secrecy
Seiten
2020
Routledge (Verlag)
978-0-367-67122-8 (ISBN)
Routledge (Verlag)
978-0-367-67122-8 (ISBN)
Why do recent depictions of government secrecy and surveillance so often use images suggesting massive size and scale? Drawing on post-War American art, film, television, and fiction, Potolsky argues that the aesthetic of the sublime provides a window into the nature of modern intelligence.
Why do recent depictions of government secrecy and surveillance so often use images suggesting massive size and scale: gigantic warehouses, remote black sites, numberless security cameras? Drawing on post-War American art, film, television, and fiction, Matthew Potolsky argues that the aesthetic of the sublime provides a privileged window into the nature of modern intelligence, a way of describing the curiously open secret of covert operations. The book tracks the development of the national security sublime from the Cold War to the War on Terror, and places it in a long history of efforts by artists and writers to represent political secrecy.
Why do recent depictions of government secrecy and surveillance so often use images suggesting massive size and scale: gigantic warehouses, remote black sites, numberless security cameras? Drawing on post-War American art, film, television, and fiction, Matthew Potolsky argues that the aesthetic of the sublime provides a privileged window into the nature of modern intelligence, a way of describing the curiously open secret of covert operations. The book tracks the development of the national security sublime from the Cold War to the War on Terror, and places it in a long history of efforts by artists and writers to represent political secrecy.
Matthew Potolsky is Professor of English at the University of Utah.
1. Defining the National Security Sublime 2. Toward an Aesthetics of Government Secrecy 3. The Genesis and Structure of the National Security Sublime 4. The Sublime Under the War on Terror 5. The Secret Without a Subject
Erscheinungsdatum | 16.01.2021 |
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Reihe/Serie | Routledge Studies in Espionage and Culture |
Verlagsort | London |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
Gewicht | 300 g |
Themenwelt | Kunst / Musik / Theater |
Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918) | |
Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte | |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung | |
ISBN-10 | 0-367-67122-0 / 0367671220 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-367-67122-8 / 9780367671228 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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