Search Results for militarism

... and practices like militarized attunement—in which the capture of textured environmental data (of the forest) becomes tethered to the capture of the enemy. The author narrativizes this militarized attunement to the forest via deployment (the attunement to forest and its biogeographical considerations that shape...

... and social relations, rendering hypervisible enforcement practices and homogenizing discourse while “invisibilizing” the violence incurred by offshore enforcement. With intensified enforcement and detention on islands through securitization and militarization, public attention is diverted from quieter daily...

... in American society: neoliberalism, religious fundamentalism, militarism and educational conformism. All these fundamentalisms will be accentuated with the reelection of George W. Bush, and most of the democratic gains of the last century will be rolled back. In opposition to this rising tide...

..., and the campaign of extermination that has been subsequently waged by Israel on the Gaza Strip. The contributions to this special section engage the current, militarized politics of memory through the premise of increasingly authoritarian forms of liberalism—such militant liberalism is consolidated around...

... to securitize borders, by NGOs to increase accountability and to aid migrants, and by independent drone photojournalists to document the event. This article discusses how the politics of drone use involves understanding the homologies between militarism, securitization, and humanitarianism in the history...

...” of the militarized Southwest; it is both inside and outside Dirty War 's central argument, reflecting the very paradox Beck is so interested in. Contextual insights and textual illuminations abound in Dirty Wars . Beck opens his fascinating chapter on gothic fiction, for example, with the revelation (to me...

... of authority and control the bunker represents. © BERG 2011 PRINTED IN THE UK 2011 bunker ambivalence militarism photography brutalism heritage Early in W. G. Sebald's novel Austerlitz (2002) , the architectural historian Jacques Austerlitz surmises that it is “often our mightiest projects...

... the paradoxes inherent in targeting as they began to emerge from World War I onwards, and we question distinctions between war and urban society, acknowledging, as we must, the increasing militarization of the latter. The introduction also provides a sense of how the articles that follow contribute...

..., and militarism are not dealt with, and taking this approach would no doubt broaden the appeal and range of the book to a wider audience. Chapter 1 offers a general history of military simulation and the emergence of the relationship between vision and anticipation that military technology has enabled...

... simply disappear—here again, the aesthetics of disappearance at work! Only film or photography keep the memory of the landscape as it was, and as it is constantly being reshaped. ( Virilio and Armitage 1999 : 45–46) Virilio was intensely “militarized” and “mobilized,” “armed,” and “battle-ready...

... economic, geopolitical, and militarized nation-state. Given the reach of power, the Western nation-state is suspicious of the university, because of its critical potential, while simultaneously depending on the university’s contribution to the knowledge economy for its very existence and perpetuation...

... factors in their analyses, various essays in Forensis argue for an ecology of culpability and emphasize how nature is often mobilized as a weapon in crimes against humanity. These essays extend discussions of militarized governmentality into those of environmentality—the regulation of the environment...

... is that no one recognizes it. People don't recognize the militarized part of their identity, of their consciousness” [ Virilio and Lotringer 1997 : 26]). Thus, for all its embeddedness in the culture of the Cold War, Virilio's text speaks powerfully to our contemporary moment, when – in the all-embracing...

... reading one particular film, Richard C. Sarafian's Vanishing Point (1971), can shed critical light on contemporary issues concerning speed and technology, the imbrication of the individual in systems of militarization and surveillance, and the limits of resistance. I argue that Vanishing Point...

... in our geological memory as a whole formation. However, Garnett’s paintings feature sporadically inhabited militarized topographies and susceptible living beings, and must live separately, not as an area of canvas or numerous patches of night-vision green and black but as a kind of evening prayer...

... the historical trajectory of US militarism. If technology begat modernity and war begets information technology, then war has become “modernity incarnate” (p. 79). Their story echoes Foucault, who said that politics is the continuation of war by other means. The permanent war machine, facilitated by weak...

... the state-led dismantling of civil liberties, the resurgence of jingoistic patriotism, and demands for adhesion to a militarized corporate globalization. In what follows I engage the threats these conservatisms pose to such a democratic project and ethos. In the first section I briefly map the terrain...

.... This essay builds on these and other insights and addresses the increasingly financialized and militarized character of contemporary capitalist culture. I argue that Walmart succeeds in part to the extent it cultivates a cultural politics of securitization and offers to its consumer-subjects the spectacle...

... of a series of horrific and generically determined tropes and events, such as imprisonment without trial, surveillance, missing people, torture, increased militarization, and people “not wanting trouble.” But locked as the narrative is into Eilish's point of view, the state of emergency is not narrated...

... and Nagasaki (the effects and memorialization of which are clearly deserving of further urban analysis in their own right). Farish's chapter details how nuclear imaginings spurred massive military interest in planning and modeling urban space as well as a pervasive militarization of everyday urban life...