War Machines: Imagining Bodies, Technology, and Space Beyond the Battlefield
Thursday, November 15th, 2018
| Date | Time | Location |
|---|---|---|
| Thursday, November 15, 2018 | 3:00PM - 4:30PM | Seminar Room 108N, 1 Devonshire Place |
Series
CSUS Graduate Student Workshop
Description
Abstract: Over the course of the 20th century, the United States’ military thinking has increasingly focused on the interaction between soldiers and technology, from ideas like cybernetics through to a present focus on technologies like electrical brain stimulation, exoskeletons and augmented reality visors. This project addressed these present technological fascinations and how they exemplify a particular and novel approach to the relationship between soldier and technology. In examining this relationship, I traced the political economy, material implications, and ideologies surrounding and producing these emerging technologies, many of which have not (and may never) see the battlefield. This project followed three sites of military technological development and circulation: The Academy, The Start-Up City, and The Arms Fair in order to understand how war and its fighters are imagined and made, before and beyond the battlefield
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