Technicities of Deception: Dazzle Camouflage, Avant-Gardes and Sensory Augmentation in the First World War
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Published:2017-03
Issue:1
Volume:12
Page:36-58
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ISSN:2041-1022
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Container-title:Modernist Cultures
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language:en
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Short-container-title:Modernist Cultures
Abstract
This essay identifies a new form of technicity that emerged in the First World War, in which enhancement and distortion effects generated by sensory augmentation technologies could be manipulated for strategic purposes by a variety of cultural agents. It argues that dazzle camouflage, a technology developed by the British Admiralty in 1917 to delay and confuse attacking U-boats, exemplifies this mediation of everyday life both on and off the battle fronts. Focusing on the London Vorticists, but also drawing on Futurist precedents, the essay explores how avant-gardes articulated the impact that technicities of augmentation had on modern selfhood.
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Subject
Literature and Literary Theory,Music,Sociology and Political Science,Visual Arts and Performing Arts,History,Cultural Studies
Cited by
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