Free Download Aerial Life: Spaces, Mobilities, Affects By Peter Adey(auth.)
2010 | 289 Pages | ISBN: 1405182628 | PDF | 4 MB
NOMINATED AND SHORT LISTED FOR THE SURVEILLANCE STUDIES BOOK PRIZE 2011! This theoretically informed research explores what the development and transformation of air travel has meant for societies and individuals. Brings together a number of interdisciplinary approaches towards the aeroplane and its relation to society Presents an original theory that our societies are aerial societies, or 'aerealities', and shows how we are both enabled and threatened by aerial mobility Features a series of detailed international case studies which map the history of aviation over the past century - from the promises of early flight, to World War II bombing campaigns, and to the rise of international terrorism today Demonstrates the transformational capacity of air transport to shape societies, bodies and individual identities Offers startling historical evidence and bold new ideas about how the social and material spaces of the aeroplane are considered in the modern eraContent: Chapter One Introduction (pages 1-22): Chapter Two Birth of the Aerial Body (pages 25-53): Chapter Three The Projection and Performance of Airspace (pages 54-81): Chapter Four Aerial Views: Bodies, Borders and Biopolitics (pages 85-113): Chapter Five Profiling Machines (pages 114-144): Chapter Six Aerial Environments (pages 147-178): Chapter Seven Subjects under Siege (pages 179-205): Chapter Eight Conclusion (pages 206-210):
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