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

by Ronak K Kapadia

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1478004010
• ISBN13: 9781478004011
• Release Date: October 2019
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 8.9"