Aerial Aftermaths: Wartime from Above

Aerial Aftermaths: Wartime from Above : Caren Kaplan : Duke University Press (2018)

The spectre of the aerial photograph, imaging the surface of the planet beneath, is riven with emotional response; as much for what is imagined than what is actually seen. Bombarded with looping footage of claimed precision interdictions, our lives and those of others are enmeshed with images that obscure and deny causation and affect. Wartime aftermath is the aphorism applied throughout this stimulating volume, specifically the technological approaches taken to envisioning warfare and the social outcomes following wars leveling affect.