War and Aesthetics: Art, Technology, and the Futures of Warfare (book review).

Bringing together a group of established scholars from across the fields of literature, political science, geography, and art and visual culture, among others, War and Aesthetics considers how aesthetic approaches open up different ways of understanding and critiquing the phenomenon of war. An excellent and authoritative anchor to the field, the volume represents an approach to aesthetics that treats war critically and reflexively, spanning both nuclear war’s “cataclysmic spectacularism” and algorithmic war’s “supra-aesthetic realm beyond human perception” (p. 13).