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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Caren KaplanPublisher: Duke University Press Imprint: Duke University Press Weight: 0.590kg ISBN: 9780822370086ISBN 10: 0822370085 Pages: 312 Publication Date: 05 January 2018 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of Contents"Acknowledgments ix Introduction. Aerial Aftermaths 1 1. Surveying Wartime Aftermaths: The First Military Survey of Scotland 34 2. Balloon Geography: The Emotion of Motion in Aerostatic Wartime 68 3. La Nature à Coup d'Oeil: ""Seeing All"" in Early Panoramas 104 4. Mapping ""Mesopotamia"": Aerial Photography in Early Twentieth-Century Iraq 138 5. The Politics of the Sensible: Aerial Photography's Wartime Aftermaths 180 Afterword. Sensing Distance 207 Notes 217 Works Cited 255 Index 277"ReviewsCaren Kaplan's Aerial Aftermaths is the leading work in an important new crossover field between visual studies, science and technology studies, and critical theory of geography. Not since Anne Friedberg's The Virtual Window have we seen such a richly researched and theorized media archaeology of technologies of visuality. This is the account of `objective' seeing from above that critical technoscience studies readers have been waiting for since Donna Haraway held forth against this ocular `God trick' almost thirty years ago. Kaplan's book comes at a time when we urgently need the kind of historical insight she offers about the geopolitical and military technologics that inform the myriad contemporary global systems through which surveillance and control are enforced. -- Lisa Cartwright, coauthor of * Practices of Looking: An Introduction to Visual Culture * Caren Kaplan's Aerial Aftermaths is a brilliant and wide-ranging examination of aerial ways of seeing and the history of the technologies employed when it comes to representing that which can be observed from on high. From the exploits of early aeronauts, military mapping, and what is seen and sensed through panoramic paintings to aerial surveying as a means of colonial governance and more, Kaplan's absorbing analysis is unmatched in its depth. With far-reaching implications for the study of visual culture and, crucially, how we interrogate the violence of drones and remote warfare, Aerial Aftermaths is essential reading. -- Simone Browne, author of * Dark Matters: On the Surveillance of Blackness * Caren Kaplan's Aerial Aftermaths is a brilliant and wide-ranging examination of aerial ways of seeing and the history of the technologies employed when it comes to representing that which can be observed from on high. From the exploits of early aeronauts, military mapping, and what is seen and sensed through panoramic paintings to aerial surveying as a means of colonial governance and more, Kaplan's absorbing analysis is unmatched in its depth. With far-reaching implications for the study of visual culture and, crucially, how we interrogate the violence of drones and remote warfare, Aerial Aftermaths is essential reading. -- Simone Browne, author of Dark Matters: On the Surveillance of Blackness Caren Kaplan's Aerial Aftermaths is the leading work in an important new crossover field between visual studies, science and technology studies, and critical theory of geography. Not since Anne Friedberg's The Virtual Window have we seen such a richly researched and theorized media archaeology of technologies of visuality. This is the account of 'objective' seeing from above that critical technoscience studies readers have been waiting for since Donna Haraway held forth against this ocular 'God trick' almost thirty years ago. Kaplan's book comes at a time when we urgently need the kind of historical insight she offers about the geopolitical and military technologics that inform the myriad contemporary global systems through which surveillance and control are enforced. -- Lisa Cartwright, coauthor of Practices of Looking: An Introduction to Visual Culture [A] fascinating history which [Kaplan] illustrates with well-chosen images sprinkled throughout the text. She shows that while the aerial perspective is far from new, contemporary viewers almost always find it fresh and consider the view from the heavens to be particularly revealing. -- Neta C. Crawford * H-Diplo, H-Net Reviews * Kaplan challenges the assessment that the view from above must always entail power and control, though that's often the purpose of this perspective. . . . As Kaplan shows, the view from above can be appropriated by artists and activists to challenge military claims and call attention to the suffering on the ground. She herself takes a view from higher above to critique drone warfare. -- Jason Pearl * Public Books * Author InformationCaren Kaplan is Professor of American Studies at the University of California, Davis, and the author and editor of several books including Life in the Age of Drone Warfare, also published by Duke University Press. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |