...Gair Dunlop If war is conducted largely on the field of logistics, how is the necessary level of involvement in the administrative staff maintained? How do those left behind on the ground remind themselves of how and why they fight? Abandoned office spaces on disbanded squadron facilities may give...

...Tarik Cyril Amar; Tania Roy Abstract German historian of modern Ukraine Tarik Cyril Amar positions the third year of the Russian invasion of Ukraine (February 2022) between an analysis of escalated culture wars within Ukraine and its resonance for Anglo-American/European liberalism, whose most...

..., Muslim, and South Asian diasporic backgrounds, the artworks enable us to recognize the regime of state surveillance and their “affective afterlives” beyond the seemingly abstract notion of war. The kind of aesthetic language that Kapadia theorizes results from militarized surveillance cultures...

...Deborah Frizzell This article is an analysis of artist-activist Nancy Spero’s War Series paintings, 1966–70. The author analyzes her paintings from this crucial time period within the context of significant historical events that impacted her artistic development of themes, formal devices...

..., and the roof where the police killed him after years of waging war against the Colombian state. Unlike the polemic films and series on the Colombian drug lord, the Wiz Khalifa controversy was the first time an outcry about the depiction of Escobar was aimed at a US Black artist, particularly a rapper...

... of the Vietnam War. The crucial question centered around the proper role of the audience, or citizenry: Should members sit quietly and watch the drama unfold, confident in the decisions of those elected to perform certain roles? Or should they raise their voices and demand to be a part of the action...

...Friedrich Kittler; Geoffrey Winthrop-Young The paper provides a brief outline of the way in which the history of war redraws the boundaries between humans, animals (wild and domesticated), and machines. by permission of the rightsholder, Susanne Holl animals Friedrich Kittler war...

...Leong Yew Little has been written about Asian spy films and their relationship with Cold War cultural studies. While their Anglo-American counterparts could be discursively analyzed for the way they portrayed Western anxieties about communism, constructed own identities as opposed to the alterity...

... of events leading up to and away from 9/11, including the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, as well as the War on Terror. The basic insight in constructivism, including Kantian constructivism and all other variations on this theme, is a claim for identity between the knower and the known, the subject...

... on an unprecedentedly massive scale during the Second World War. I argue that in Atonement these conditions are most effectively evoked when the text relinquishes its aspirations to pure, contemporaneous presence and instead employs tactics of evasion, elision, and belatedness. I conclude by suggesting that, under...

..., will be assessed. It will be argued that, rather than the self-inflicted death of the global liberal order by means of irrational destructive terrorism, or the imminent collapse of Islamic fundamentalism, the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center and the subsequent war on terror exhibit the tensions...

...Alex Houen This article explores ways in which the poems Allen Ginsberg wrote against the Vietnam War entailed resisting what he viewed to be effects of “coldwar subjectivity” – in particular, the automation of thinking and feeling. Many of these poems are what Ginsberg called “auto poems”: lyrical...

...Marek Bartelik Imagining the Unimaginable: World War, Modern Art, and the Politics of Public Culture in Russia, 1914–1917 , Cohen Aaron J. , Lincoln, NE : University of Nebraska Press , 2008 , 246 pages, $45.00/£32.00, HB ISBN: 9780803215474 © BERG 2009 PRINTED IN THE UK 2009...

...James Ash Gameplay Mode: War, Simulation, and Technoculture by Crogan Patrick Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press , 2011 , $75.00/£48.00 (hardcover), $25.00/£16.00 (paperback) ISBN 978-0-8166-5334-8, 978-0-8166-5335-5 © 2012 Duke University Press 2012...

... the ubiquitous features of war and its aftermath, the artworks included herein equally represent indigenous cultures' intent to reinforce and maintain local customs and values as a defense against both reactionary regional insurgencies that embrace modernity from within and the long arm of homogenizing forces...

... and transparency: tearing off the women’s veils or hooding the men to make them seem more naked, more obscene . . . This whole masquerade that tops off the ignominy of war, going so far as the literal travestying – in what is the most ferocious image (the most ferocious for America), because it stirs up most...

...Jonathan Harris This essay highlights post-1945 intertwined aesthetic and political radicalisms in the visual arts, drawing on key examples from the United States and Western Europe in the decades from the end of World War II to the present. It seeks to explore the complex relations between...

..., beginnings and endings, images Spero would deploy in Maypole . The artist recalled these haunted beings as revelations: In the early 1960s, I have these strange creatures, saying “merde” and “fuck you.” They’re very angry images. These snake-like- or worm-like figures are a precursor of the War Series...