... mediated wars visual activism humanitarian affect Napoleonic wars integrated spectacle ...

... a literary genealogy of wartime from the Napoleonic era to the present and illuminates the aesthetic purchase of war (and its technologies) as a shaper of distinct literary imaginaries: the sentimental, the humanitarian, the panoptic, and the spectacular. mediated wars visual activism humanitarian...

... a literary genealogy of wartime from the Napoleonic era to the present and illuminates the aesthetic purchase of war (and its technologies) as a shaper of distinct literary imaginaries: the sentimental, the humanitarian, the panoptic, and the spectacular. mediated wars visual activism humanitarian...

... violent mediation drone warfare remote war autonomous weapons systems ...

... mediation drone warfare remote war autonomous weapons systems ...

... the mediating power of native interpreters. It also inquires into the limits and contradictions of such tactics and their implications for the success or failure of counterinsurgency. Finally it asks whether there are other ways in which translation works in war time that tend to evade the militarization...

... The introduction, “Nonhuman Witnessing,” provides an overview of the conceptual framework and core argument of the book that nonhuman actors and processes engage in witnessing. It provides an account of the interlocking crises of increasingly autonomous war, data and algorithmic enclosure...

...Family Catachrony Chapter 1 examines how Korean War–era photographs of war orphans come to frame contemporary memory making of the war as the photographs are remediated in contemporary Korean War commemorative events. The narrative of victimhood became a common literary and visual rhetorical...

... critical reflection. Given the prevalence of deceptions and false flag operations in a mass mediated age, the chapter calls for a reconsideration of conspiratorial thought as a necessary survival tool in contemporary life. Focusing on official US national security deceptions over the past half century...

... of the logics of war and peace on an island that is chronically subjected to political as well as everyday violence. mediation involvement violence gangs Haiti ...

... are seen in the U.S. occupation of Iraq. As an examination of the vexed position of Iraqi translators working for the U.S. military shows, attempts to deploy American notions of translation in war have devolved instead into the circulation of what remains untranslatable and so inassimilable to U.S...

... in the pre-LP era. It explores why a cultural history of the jazz LP must attend to Black jazz musicians and their work to redefine notions of Black expertise, Black labor, and Black capital in the early Cold War era. Finally, it outlines four interrelated frameworks that define the book’s overall approach...

... This chapter establishes a theoretical framework for understanding cultural translations of nature. It explains the significance of the guides as cultural translators who mediate different worlds and move tourists, both physically and affectively. It situates their work in Japanese intellectual...

... Chapter 4 considers the Metal Gear Solid series (Konami, 1998–2015), which follows several covert agents as they infiltrate terrorist bases and active war zones. It analyzes the player character Solid Snake as half-Japanese and half-white, locating Snake’s biraciality in the context...

... Chapter 2 discusses family photographic portraits through a dual lens: photography’s ability to convey changing family narratives through portraiture and how family pictures embody the desire under the kukka to transform Korean society from colonial and war-ridden to modern and industrial...

... The historical creation of two Chinas produced rigid definitions of Marxism and liberalism. However, this event also gave rise to a geopolitically mediated Chinese queer theory whose materialist hallmark distinguishes it from liberal-pluralist theories in the United States that begin...

....  By reporting on Fidel Castro and the 26th of July Movement soldiers, the U.S. began both to uncover Batista’s oppression while, at the same time, depicting Castro as a hero of the people. This U.S. mediated imagining of the rebellion and its maximum leader was prominent in the 1957 CBS documentary, Rebels...