1st Edition
The National Security Sublime On the Aesthetics of Government Secrecy
By Matthew Potolsky
Copyright 2019
204 Pages
by
Routledge
204 Pages
20 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
204 Pages
20 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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Why do recent depictions of government secrecy and surveillance so often use images suggesting massive size and scale: gigantic warehouses, remote black sites, numberless security cameras? Drawing on post-War American art, film, television, and fiction, Matthew Potolsky argues that the aesthetic of the sublime provides a privileged window into the nature of modern intelligence, a way of... Read more
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
Biography
Matthew Potolsky is Professor of English at the University of Utah.
