Cold war legacies : systems, theory, aesthetics / edited by John Beck and Ryan Bishop.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

List of figures -- Series editors' preface -- Acknowledgements -- Notes on contributors. Introduction: the long Cold War / John Beck and Ryan Bishop. 1 Pattern recognition : The future : RAND, brand and dangerous to know / John Beck -- Simulate, optimise, partition: algorithmic diagrams of pattern recognition from 1953 onwards / Adrian Mackenzie -- Impulsive synchronisation: a conversation on military technologies and audiovisual arts / Aura Satz and Jussi Parikka. 2 The persistence of the nuclear : The meaning of Monte Bello / James Purdon -- Deep geological disposal and radioactive time: Beckett, Bowen, Nirex and Onkalo / Adam Piette -- Shifting the nuclear imaginary: art and the flight from nuclear modernity / Ele Carpenter -- Alchemical transformations? Fictions of the nuclear state after 1989 / Daniel Grausam. 3 Ubiquitous surveillance : "The very form of perverse artificial societies:" the unstable emergence of the network family from its Cold War nuclear bunker / Ken Hollings -- The signal-haunted Cold War: persistence of the SIGINT ontology / Jussi Parikka -- "Bulk surveillance," or the elegant technicities of metadata / Mark Coté. 4 Pervasive mediations : Notes from the underground: microwaves, backbones, party lines and the Post Office Tower / John W.P. Phillips -- Insect technics: war vision machines / Fabienne Collingnon -- Overt research / Neal White and John Beck -- Smart dust and remote sensing: the political subject in autonomous systems / Ryan Bishop. Index.

From futures research, pattern recognition algorithms, nuclear waste disposal and surveillance technologies, to smart weapons systems, contemporary fiction and art, this book shows that we are now living in a world imagined and engineered during the Cold War. Drawing on theorists such as Jean Baudrillard, Jacques Derrida, Michel Foucault, Luce Irigaray, Friedrich Kittler, Michel Serres, Peter Sloterdijk, Carl Schmitt, Bernard Stiegler and Paul Virilio this collection makes connections between Cold War material and conceptual technologies, as they relate to the arts, society and culture.

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