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Technicities of Deception: Dazzle Camouflage, Avant-Gardes and Sensory Augmentation in the First World War

Technicities of Deception: Dazzle Camouflage, Avant-Gardes and Sensory Augmentation in the First... <jats:p> This essay identifies a new form of technicity that emerged in the First World War, in which enhancement and distortion effects generated by sensory augmentation technologies could be manipulated for strategic purposes by a variety of cultural agents. It argues that dazzle camouflage, a technology developed by the British Admiralty in 1917 to delay and confuse attacking U-boats, exemplifies this mediation of everyday life both on and off the battle fronts. Focusing on the London Vorticists, but also drawing on Futurist precedents, the essay explores how avant-gardes articulated the impact that technicities of augmentation had on modern selfhood. </jats:p> http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Modernist Cultures Edinburgh University Press

Technicities of Deception: Dazzle Camouflage, Avant-Gardes and Sensory Augmentation in the First World War

White, Eric
Modernist Cultures , Volume 12 (1): 36 – Mar 1, 2017
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Edinburgh University Press
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© Edinburgh University Press 2017
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Articles; Film, Media and Cultural Studies
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2041-1022
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10.3366/mod.2017.0155
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<jats:p> This essay identifies a new form of technicity that emerged in the First World War, in which enhancement and distortion effects generated by sensory augmentation technologies could be manipulated for strategic purposes by a variety of cultural agents. It argues that dazzle camouflage, a technology developed by the British Admiralty in 1917 to delay and confuse attacking U-boats, exemplifies this mediation of everyday life both on and off the battle fronts. Focusing on the London Vorticists, but also drawing on Futurist precedents, the essay explores how avant-gardes articulated the impact that technicities of augmentation had on modern selfhood. </jats:p>

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Modernist Cultures – Edinburgh University Press

Published: Mar 1, 2017

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