{"product_id":"disobedient-aesthetics-surveillance-bodies-control-hardback-9780817321864","title":"Disobedient Aesthetics; Surveillance, Bodies, Control (Hardback) 9780817321864","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eDisobedient Aesthetics\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eSurveillance, Bodies, Control\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eAnthony Stagliano (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780817321864, The University of Alabama Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 22 March 2024\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e194 pages, 17 b\u0026amp;w figures\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 2 cm, 0.272 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\"By highlighting experimental art as rhetorical deliberation on contemporary projects of control and as maps of disobedient avenues pointing toward new worlds, Stagliano shows a vital new direction for conceptualizing rhetoric in the present.\"—Andrew Pilsch is associate professor of English at Texas AM University. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eTranshumanism: Evolutionary Futurism and the Human Technologies of Utopia\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “In \u003ci\u003eDisobedient Aesthetics: Surveillance, Bodies, Control\u003c\/i\u003e, Anthony Stagliano brings theories of rhetoric and media to bear on compelling examples of embodied protests against control society technology. His discussion of facial recognition as a form of \u003ci\u003eproduction\u003c\/i\u003e posits the human face in posthuman terms--face as an interface of control, face as a site of demand, face as an index of unrecognizable traits, and face as a locale for deception and truth—thus upending a purely representational approach to aesthetics.”—Annette Vee is associate professor of English and director of composition at the University of Pittsburgh. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eCoding Literacy: How Computer Programming is Changing Writing\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eExamines emergent forms of creative civil disobedience that have arisen in response to digital tools of bodily surveillance and control\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e The contemporary world bristles with tools of observation and manipulation. Security cameras, social media, data mining, biometric scans, and other instruments ensnare the individual in a web of surveillance. In \u003ci\u003eDisobedient Aesthetics\u003c\/i\u003e, Anthony Stagliano exposes the use of human lives as sites of data exploitation and outlines paths of resistance. From the thermal-vision systems used on military drones, which use human body heat itself as a media object, to facial recognition platforms that use human faces as data mines, and from law enforcement tools of DNA analysis to data-driven urban governance, the realm of algorithmic surveillance and control is wide and subtle.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eDisobedient Aesthetics\u003c\/i\u003e outlines interventions into the technical systems subtending data-driven surveillance and control. Stagliano maps not only the surveillant regimes afforded by recent networked technologies, but also the inventive, artistic research into ways of undermining, upending, or redirecting such technologies. The concluding chapter examines creative, critical, and collective efforts to democratize access to the technology that undergirds such scrutiny and enables ways to detect and contest its power.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e In a fascinating epilogue, Stagliano revisits current theories of control and offers an alternative reading of Gilles Deleuze’s oft-cited thesis on control societies: namely that it is not a matter of “finding new weapons” to undermine control but developing new techniques, new designs, new prototypes, and new modes of creative escape.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"The University of Alabama Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52570157678872,"sku":"9780817321864","price":66.29,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/disobedient-aesthetics-surveillance-bodies-control-hardback-9780817321864","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}