Insurgent Aesthetics: Security and the Queer Life of the Forever War

Author:   Ronak K. Kapadia
Publisher:   Duke University Press
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Pages:   352
Publication Date:   25 October 2019
Format:   Paperback
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"In Insurgent Aesthetics Ronak K. Kapadia theorizes the world-making power of contemporary art responses to US militarism in the Greater Middle East. He traces how new forms of remote killing, torture, confinement, and surveillance have created a distinctive post-9/11 infrastructure of racialized state violence. Linking these new forms of violence to the history of American imperialism and conquest, Kapadia shows how Arab, Muslim, and South Asian diasporic multimedia artists force a reckoning with the US war on terror's violent destruction and its impacts on immigrant and refugee communities. Drawing on an eclectic range of visual, installation, and performance works, Kapadia reveals queer feminist decolonial critiques of the US security state that visualize subjugated histories of US militarism and make palpable what he terms ""the sensorial life of empire."" In this way, these artists forge new aesthetic and social alliances that sustain critical opposition to the global war machine and create alternative ways of knowing and feeling beyond the forever war."

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Author:   Ronak K. Kapadia
Publisher:   Duke University Press
Imprint:   Duke University Press
Weight:   0.703kg
ISBN:  

9781478004011


ISBN 10:   1478004010
Pages:   352
Publication Date:   25 October 2019
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

"Acknowledgments  vii Introduction. Sensuous Affiliations: Security, Terror, and the Queer Calculus of the Forever War  1 1. Up in the Air: US Aerial Power and the Visual Life of Empire in the Drone Age  44 2. On the Skin: Drone Warfare, Collateral Damage, and the Human Terrain  76 3. Empire's Innards: Conjuring ""Warm Data"" in the Archives of US Global Military Detention  103 4. Palestine(s) in the Sky: Visionary Aesthetics and Queer Cosmic Utopias from the Frontiers of US Empire  151 Epilogue. Scaling Empire: Insurgent Aesthetics n the Wilds of Imperial Decline  187 Notes  203 Bibliography  271 Index  321"

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With its sharp interrogation of US warfare, settler colonialism, and racial capitalism, Insurgent Aesthetics introduces 'queer calculus' as an analytic that focuses on the racial violences of US empire and its forever war. By attending to the sensuous, and to the creative praxis and interventions of Arab, Muslim, and South Asian diasporic artists, Insurgent Aesthetics is a powerful, queer feminist study of life under US empire. Importantly, Ronak K. Kapadia demonstrates how insurgent strategies of solidarity and rebellion can trouble empire's methodologies and move us toward freedom. -- Simone Browne, author of * Dark Matters: On the Surveillance of Blackness * At its core, Insurgent Aesthetics reminds us that war and security are-despite the modern ideologies that would declare otherwise-fundamentally racialized social practices that seek to manage their violence in everyday life through controlling what can be felt and known. By looking at the ways diasporic communities interfere with sovereign and statist logics that conserve the knowledge of loss for the national community alone, this exquisitely written book powerfully argues for the insurgent abilities of culture to interrupt, deform, and repopulate our felt and known worlds in ways that force a reckoning and connection with the racialized death and detritus that US security at once creates and tries to disappear. -- Chandan Reddy, author of * Freedom with Violence: Race, Sexuality, and the U.S. State *


With its sharp interrogation of US warfare, settler colonialism, and racial capitalism, Insurgent Aesthetics introduces 'queer calculus' as an analytic that focuses on the racial violences of US empire and its forever war. By attending to the sensuous, and to the creative praxis and interventions of Arab, Muslim, and South Asian diasporic artists, Insurgent Aesthetics is a powerful, queer feminist study of life under US empire. Importantly, Ronak K. Kapadia demonstrates how insurgent strategies of solidarity and rebellion can trouble empire's methodologies and move us toward freedom. --Simone Browne, author of Dark Matters: On the Surveillance of Blackness At its core, Insurgent Aesthetics reminds us that war and security are--despite the modern ideologies that would declare otherwise--fundamentally racialized social practices that seek to manage their violence in everyday life through controlling what can be felt and known. By looking at the ways diasporic communities interfere with sovereign and statist logics that conserve the knowledge of loss for the national community alone, this exquisitely written book powerfully argues for the insurgent abilities of culture to interrupt, deform, and repopulate our felt and known worlds in ways that force a reckoning and connection with the racialized death and detritus that US security at once creates and tries to disappear. --Chandan Reddy, author of Freedom with Violence: Race, Sexuality, and the U.S. State


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Ronak K. Kapadia is Associate Professor of Gender and Women's Studies at the University of Illinois at Chicago.

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