Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. List of Figures vii
4. Series Editors’ Preface ix
5. Acknowledgements x
6. Notes on Contributors xi
7. Introduction: The Long Cold War 1
8. I Pattern Recognition
9. 1 The Future: RAND, Brand and Dangerous to Know 35
10. 2 Simulate, Optimise, Partition: Algorithmic Diagrams of Pattern Recognition from 1953 Onwards 50
11. 3 Impulsive Synchronisation: A Conversation on Military Technologies and Audiovisual Arts 70
12. II The Persistence of the Nuclear
13. 4 The Meaning of Monte Bello 85
14. 5 Deep Geological Disposal and Radioactive Time: Beckett, Bowen, Nirex and Onkalo 102
15. 6 Shifting the Nuclear Imaginary: Art and the Flight from Nuclear Modernity 116
16. 7 Alchemical Transformations? Fictions of the Nuclear State after 1989 134
17. III Ubiquitous Surveillance
18. 8 ‘The Very Form of Perverse Artificial Societies’: The Unstable Emergence of the Network Family from its Cold War Nuclear Bunker 151
19. 9 The Signal-Haunted Cold War: Persistence of the SIGINT Ontology 167
20. 10 ‘Bulk Surveillance’, or The Elegant Technicities of Metadata 188
21. IV Pervasive Mediations
22. 11 Notes from the Underground: Microwaves, Backbones, Party Lines and the Post Office Tower 213
23. 12 Insect Technics: War Vision Machines 234
24. 13 Overt Research 252
25. 14 Smart Dust and Remote Sensing: The Political Subject in Autonomous Systems 273
26. Index 289