The Eye of War by Antoine Bousquet

The Eye of War by Antoine Bousquet

How perceptual technologies have shaped the history of war from the Renaissance to the present.

"This wonderfully erudite genealogy of the increasingly precise ways in which the linkage of military perception and weaponry has brought us to the point where being detected puts one within a spatio-temporally fine-grained ‘kill box’ is fascinating and importantRanging over hundreds of years of documents, beginning with telescopes and ending with the overlap of light and death in the laser, Bousquet’s work will be both at the forefront of security studies and a crucial addition to the knowledge base of concerned citizens."—John Protevi, author of Life, War, Earth: Deleuze and the Sciences

"The Eye of War is a masterful contemporary history of the martial gaze that reviews the relation between seeing and targeting. The expansion of ocularcentrism—the ubiquitization of vision as power—Antoine Bousquet shows us, coincides with the inverse: the relegation of the eye to an instrument of a war order that relies on the sensorium as the means to its own ends. As he traces the development of a technocracy of military vision, Bousquet discloses the vision of a military technocracy that has transformed the given world into units of perception indistinct from ‘kill boxes.’"—Daniel Bertrand Monk, Colgate University

"This book dives deeply back into history of canonic studies of perspective and projective geometry, recognised as founding methods for further the rationalisation of visions and mathematization of space, as well as introducing the first technologies of space-measuring as distance meter. " —Leonardo Reviews

Antoine Bousquet is reader in international relations at Birkbeck, University of London. He is author of The Scientific Way of Warfare: Order and Chaos on the Battlefields of Modernity.

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ISBN 13	9781517903473
ISBN 10	1517903475
Title	The Eye of War
Author	Antoine Bousquet
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	University of Minnesota Press
Year published	2018-10-09
Number of pages	272
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