MILITARISATION AND PLEASURE
A Special Issue of Culture, Theory, and Critique
Edited by Alex Adams and Amy Gaeta
Militarisation and Pleasure
A special issue of Culture Theory and Critique edited by Alex Adams and Amy Gaeta.
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Forthcoming 2024.
Print ISSN: 1473-5784 Online ISSN: 1473-5776
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 is currently in progress, and will eventually comprise 12 essays and an introduction by the editors. Essays will be published online as soon as they complete the editorial process, and the full issue will be available in print and at a dedicated website upon full completion.​
Papers
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Introduction: Militarisation and pleasure by Alex Adams and Amy Gaeta
Abstract and full details to come
https://doi.org/10.1080/14735784.2024.2394417
Open Access PDF coming soon
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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
Abstract and full details
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
Abstract, full details, and open access PDF to come
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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