John Beck is Professor of Modern Literature and Director of the Institute for Modern and Contemporary Culture at the University of Westminster, London. He is the author of Writing the Radical Center: William Carlos Williams John Dewey, and American Cultural Politics (SUNY, 2001) and Dirty Wars:Landscape, Power, and Waste in Western American Literature (University of Nebraska Press, 2009) co-editor of American Visual Cultures (Continuum, 2005).
Ryan Bishop is Professor of Global Art and Politics at Winchester School of Art and Co-Director of the Winchester Centre for Global Futures in Art Design & Media at the University of Southampton. He co-edits Cultural Politics (Duke UP) with John Armitage and Doug Kellner, and he edits the book series Theory Now for Polity Press. His research areas include critical theory, art, media, literary studies, technology, urbanism and militarisation of daily life.
List of Figures
Series Editors' Preface
Acknowledgements
Notes on Contributors
Introduction: The Long Cold War John Beck and Ryan Bishop
I Pattern Recognition
1 The Future: RAND, Brand and Dangerous to Know John Beck
2 Simulate, Optimise, Partition: Algorithmic Diagrams of Pattern Recognition from 1953 Onwards Adrian Mackenzie
3 Impulsive Synchronisation: A Conversation on Military Technologies and Audiovisual Arts Aura Satz and Jussi Parikka
II The Persistence of the Nuclear
4 The Meaning of Monte Bello James Purdon
5 Deep Geological Disposal and Radioactive Time: Beckett, Bowen, Nirex and Onkalo Adam Piette
6 Shifting the Nuclear Imaginary: Art and the Flight from Nuclear Modernity Ele Carpenter
7 Alchemical Transformations? Fictions of the Nuclear State after 1989 Daniel Grausam
III Ubiquitous Surveillance
8 'The Very Form of Perverse Artificial Societies': The Unstable Emergence of the Network Family from its Cold War Nuclear Bunker Ken Hollings
9 The Signal-Haunted Cold War: Persistence of the SIGINT Ontology Jussi Parikka
10 'Bulk Surveillance', or The Elegant Technicities of Metadata Mark Coté
IV Pervasive Mediations
11 Notes from the Underground: Microwaves, Backbones, Party Lines and the Post Office Tower John W. P. Phillips
12 Insect Technics: War Vision Machines Fabienne Collignon
13 Overt Research Neal White and John Beck
14 Smart Dust and Remote Sensing: The Political Subject in Autonomous Systems Ryan Bishop
