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?
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.
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?
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
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
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
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
04. Policing trans existence through peda-parrhesia: deploying the rhetorical child by Ada Hubrig
https://doi.org/10.1080/14735784.2024.2366341
05. COVID-19 cookbooks: war and pleasure in US kitchens by Nieves Pascual Soler
https://doi.org/10.1080/14735784.2023.2265088
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
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
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
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
10. Play for Ukraine: wargaming as a resistance pleasure by Olga Usachova
https://doi.org/10.1080/14735784.2024.2379814
11. The abject pleasures of militarised noise by Peter J. Woods
https://doi.org/10.1080/14735784.2023.2265085
12. (Role)playing soldier: LARP, simulated combat, and gender at war by Zoë Antoinette Eddy
https://doi.org/10.1080/14735784.2024.2336451