MILITARISATION AND PLEASURE
A Special Issue of Culture, Theory, and Critique
Volume 64, Numbers 1-2, February-May 2023. Edited by Alex Adams and Amy Gaeta
How do we enjoy our everyday militarisation?
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It is well-known that many aspects of our lives, from our built environment, through our food, to our cultural productions, are constitutively interpenetrated with the material forces of contemporary militarism.
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This special issue asks not only what is at stake in our pleasures, but further: what does our militarisation feel like? Why does the martial feel like home? Do our pleasures give us ways to resist the multiple harms of contemporary militarisation?
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This special issue comprises 12 essays and an introduction by the editors.
00. ​​Introduction: militarisation and pleasure by Alex Adams and Amy Gaeta
https://doi.org/10.1080/14735784.2024.2394417
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01. The cinematic universe of copaganda: world-building and the enchantments of policing by Derek S. Denman
https://doi.org/10.1080/14735784.2023.2265086
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02. Aesthetic (dis)pleasure in a war zone: complexities of US-military patronage of an ‘enemy’ Iraqi artist by Nausikaä El-Mecky
https://doi.org/10.1080/14735784.2024.2346123
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03. ‘Military’ miracle drugs and the ‘pharmaceuticalisation’ of everyday life from below in the Cold War USSR by Pavel Vasilyev
https://doi.org/10.1080/14735784.2024.2336450
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04. Policing trans existence through peda-parrhesia: deploying the rhetorical child by Ada Hubrig
https://doi.org/10.1080/14735784.2024.2366341
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05. COVID-19 cookbooks: war and pleasure in US kitchens by Nieves Pascual Soler
https://doi.org/10.1080/14735784.2023.2265088
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06. Soft food as violence cover-up: militarised foods as foods of the everyday by Kayci Merritte
https://doi.org/10.1080/14735784.2023.2266160
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07. Bunker media: stories from the abundant and redundant underground by Greg Elmer and Steven J. Neville
https://doi.org/10.1080/14735784.2024.2311914
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08. Autonomous weapons of pleasure. Media archaeology of automated killing in military and gaming technologies by Michał Dawid Żmuda
https://doi.org/10.1080/14735784.2023.2265087
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09. From the ready room to the battle bus: exploring militarisation through gamespace soundwalks in Fortnite by Ben Scholl and Milena Droumeva
https://doi.org/10.1080/14735784.2023.2266159
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10. Play for Ukraine: wargaming as a resistance pleasure by Olga Usachova
https://doi.org/10.1080/14735784.2024.2379814
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11. The abject pleasures of militarised noise by Peter J. Woods
https://doi.org/10.1080/14735784.2023.2265085
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12. (Role)playing soldier: LARP, simulated combat, and gender at war by Zoë Antoinette Eddy
https://doi.org/10.1080/14735784.2024.2336451
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