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‘This is too much’
“The Nameless Ones, 1914” (1916) by Albin Egger-Lienz. Painted during World War I, the artwork depicts advancing figures so bowed-down that their bodies almost blend with the earth beneath them....
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Drone imaginaries and Society
The programme for the conference on Drone Imaginaries and Society at the University of Southern Denmark in Odense has just been released: Tuesday, June 5, 2018 9:30 Welcome and introduction: Drone...
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The Airspace Tribunal
News of a project dear to my research (and my heart): Towards a new human right to protect the freedom to exist without a physical or psychological threat from above by The Wapping Project Doughty...
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What Remains
As part of its Culture Under Attack season, the Imperial War Museum in London is staging a new exhibition (5 July 2019 – 5 January 2020), What Remains: From the Nazi theft of art and the bombing of...
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The aesthetics of drone warfare
A conference at the Humanities Research Institute at the University of Sheffield (UK), 7-8 February 2020, organised by Beryl Pong – Vice Chancellor’s Fellow in English at the University of Sheffield –...
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Wars in Words
New books forthcoming from Duke University Press (for my money, one of the most interesting and innovative of university presses – beautifully produced and at accessible prices too: UK publishers...
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The Arab Archive
News via the War & Media Network of an important collection of essays edited by Donatella Della Ratta, Kay Dickinson and Sune Haugbolle, The Arab Archive: Mediated Memories and Digital Flows. It’s...
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Post-Atomic Eyes
An age ago I was asked to contribute to a symposium in Toronto on ‘Post-atomic eyes‘; I confessed at the time that I was taken aback – what on earth were the connections between drones and nuclear...
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Material Witness
A new book from the wonderful Susan Schuppli – I was going to say ‘of Forensic Architecture‘ fame, except that her work involves so much more than that! You can see both her entanglements with...
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