March 3, 2026Open Access

War and Aesthetics: Art, Technology, and the Futures of Warfare (book review).

Key Points

Aesthetic approaches enhance understanding of war, revealing complexities in its representation and critique.
The volume covers the themes of nuclear war and algorithmic war, presenting their aesthetic dimensions and implications.
Critical perspectives are provided by established scholars in fields such as literature and visual culture, creating a multidisciplinary dialogue.
The book serves as an authoritative resource, inviting further exploration of how aesthetics inform our perceptions of warfare.

Abstract

Bringing together a group of established scholars from across the fields of literature, political science, geography, and art and visual culture, among others, War and Aesthetics considers how aesthetic approaches open up different ways of understanding and critiquing the phenomenon of war. An excellent and authoritative anchor to the field, the volume represents an approach to aesthetics that treats war critically and reflexively, spanning both nuclear war’s “cataclysmic spectacularism” and algorithmic war’s “supra-aesthetic realm beyond human perception” (p. 13).

War and Aesthetics: Art, Technology, and the Futures of Warfare (book review).

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