The National Security Sublime: On the Aesthetics of Government Secrecy

ISBN-13: 9780367671228 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 184 str.

Matthew Potolsky

Opis

Why do recent depictions of government secrecy and surveillance so often use images suggesting massive size and scale? Drawing on post-War American art, film, television, and fiction, Potolsky argues that the aesthetic of the sublime provides a window into the nature of modern intelligence.

Spis treści

1. Defining the National Security Sublime  2. Toward an Aesthetics of Government Secrecy  3. The Genesis and Structure of the National Security Sublime  4. The Sublime Under the War on Terror  5. The Secret Without a Subject

O autorze

Matthew Potolsky is Professor of English at the University of Utah.