Caren Kaplan: Aerial Aftermaths: Wartime from Above (2018)
Filed under book | Tags: · aesthetics, air, cartography, colonialism, geography, history of photography, infrastructure, knowledge, landscape, mapping, military, nature, panorama, photography, power, space, technology, war
“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.”
Publisher Duke University Press, Durham, 2018
Next Wave: New Directions in Women’s Studies series
ISBN 9780822370086, 0822370085
xiv+298 pages
via André
A Field Guide to “Fake News” and Other Information Disorders (2018)
Filed under book | Tags: · deception, fake news, internet, journalism, media, memes, politics, social media, trolling, truth, web
“This guide explores the use of digital methods to study false viral news, political memes, trolling practices and their social life online.
It responds to an increasing demand for understanding the interplay between digital platforms, misleading information, propaganda and viral content practices, and their influence on politics and public life in democratic societies.”
Compiled by Liliana Bounegru, Jonathan Gray, Tommaso Venturini, and Michele Mauri
Publisher Public Data Lab, January 2018
Creative Commons BY 4.0 License
211 pages
Max Bense, Elisabeth Walther (eds.): rot 21: konkrete poesie international (1965)
Filed under book, magazine | Tags: · concrete poetry, poetry, visual poetry
An anthology of concrete poetry. Special issue of rot.
Works by diter rot, edwin morgan, ian hamilton finlay, vagn steen, emmet williams, peter greenham, ladislaw novák, josef hirsal und bohumila grögerová, paul de vree, pierre garnier, john j. sharkey, dom sylvester houédard, yüksel pazarkaya, mathias goeritz, carlo belloli, eugen gomringer, gerhard rühm, ernst jandl, kurt sanmark, åke hodell, leif nylén, hans-jørgen nielsen, jörgen nash, augusto de campos, ronaldo azeredo, haroldo de campos, josé lino grünewald, franz mon, décio pignatari, reinhard döhl, timm ulrichs, konrad balder schäuffelen, edgar braga, pedro xisto, claus bremer, helmut heißenbüttel.
With an Afterword by Max Bense
Published in Stuttgart, May 1965
Cover design Walter Faigle
Printing Hansjörg Mayer
ISBN 3874510212
[46] pages
via Archivio Maurizio Spatola
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