Anders Engberg-Pedersen
Biographic Data
| ID | 283586 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Anders Engberg-Pedersen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Anders |
| FAMILY NAME | Engberg-Pedersen |
| SIGNATURE | ENGBERG-PEDERSEN A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Southern Denmark |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6268-6197 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Aesthetics of Naval War Literature: Outline of a Theoretical Framework
The National Security Novel: Useful Fiction,' Persuasive Emotions, and the Securitization of Literature
Since 2015, two influential American authors and military consultants have sought to leverage imaginative literature for the cause of national security. On the basis of concepts such as useful fiction and FICINT, a shorthand for fictional intelligence, they have sought to develop a new genre—the national security novel—which blends nonfictional research and predictive threat scenarios with the creative inventions and emotional appeal of fiction. …
War and Literary Studies
Operation Valhalla: Writings on War, Weapons, and Media
Is Society at War? Le Colonel Foucault
Is Society at War?Le Colonel Foucault Anders Engberg-Pedersen In 1817, in a small, stuffy legal office of a solicitor by the name of Derville, six law clerks confront a strange figure: an uncouth old man in a worn cloak, who has for the fifth time sought to gain entry to the space of the law. The immature clerks inform him that the solicitor only works during the night and suggest that he return at one in the morning. Once again the claimant leav…
Covid-19 og krigen som metafor
A lexander M ikaberidze . The Napoleonic Wars. A Global History
We don’t usually underestimate the impact of the Napoleonic Wars. In recent years in particular, the period from 1792 to 1815 has been the subject of a renewed focus on the transformative force of large-scale mass warfare as historians of all stripes have charted the upending of societal structures, the redrawing of political maps, the repercussions in culture and the arts, and the changes in the very concept of war itself. With few exceptions, h…
How do wars end? A multidisciplinary enquiry
The cessation of military confrontations rarely coincides with the end of war. Legal and political matters continue after the last shot has been fired, civilians driven from their homes try to rebuild their houses and their lives, veterans need to adapt to their new role in civil society, and the struggle to define the history and the significance of past events only begins. In recent years, in particular, the changes in the character of contempo…
Visualizing war emotions, technologies, communities: Emotions, Technologies, Communities
The Sense of Tact: Hoffmann, Maelzel, and Mechanical Music
This essay examines the notion of tact at the intersection of technology, music, and literature around 1800. Focusing on E.T.A. Hoffmann’s Der Sandmann and Die Automate, it situates his texts in the longer history of musical automata in the eighteenth century and alongside the invention of the metronome by Dietrich Nikolaus Winkel and Johann Nepomuk Maelzel in the early 19th century. This mechanization of music spurred debates about the problem o…
Sound Figures: Between Physics and Aesthetics
War atmospheres
This article examines warfare as a problem of knowledge in the military theory, realist literature, and cartography of the nineteenth century. Against the background of the Napoleonic Wars, Carl von Clausewitz, Stendhal, and Charles Joseph Minard in different ways conceived of warfare as a profoundly contingent phenomenon that required a shift of metaphors and the development of new forms of representation. In each instance, meteorological phenom…
Literature and Cartography: Theories, Histories, Genres
Technologies of Experience: Harun Farocki's Serious Games and Military Aesthetics
In the twenty-first century, warfare has increasingly become pervaded by fictions. Using carefully crafted virtual worlds to train, prepare, and process military engagements, the US military has co-opted and militarized a field that one does not usually associate with war—the field of aesthetics. This essay considers Harun Farocki's installation Serious Games as an index into the emergence of a newfangled military aesthetic regime. Charting the i…
Sketching War: August von Larisch’s Collection of Field Maps from the Russian Campaign of 1812
During the Napoleonic Wars the military croquis, or sketch map, played an important role in the spatial management of the various campaigns. Presumably, many of these sketch maps were destroyed or discarded after their immediate use. Those that survive have received little scholarly notice. Attention is drawn in this article to a large and well-documented collection produced during the campaign in Russia in 1812 and subsequently amassed by the Sa…
The Refraction of Geometry
This essay examines the role of geometry in military theory around 1700 and its critical reception in Laurence Sterne's Tristram Shandy. Juxtaposing literature, maps, and war games, the essay outlines a poetics of war in the eighteenth century and traces the decline of the geometrical order that governs it. A forged continuation of Sterne's novel written in the immediate aftermath of the Napoleonic Wars reveals the development of a new poetics an…
How do wars end? A multidisciplinary enquiry
The cessation of military confrontations rarely coincides with the end of war. Legal and political matters continue after the last shot has been fired, civilians driven from their homes try to rebuild their houses and their lives, veterans need to adapt to their new role in civil society, and the struggle to define the history and the significance of past events only begins. In recent years, in particular, the changes in the character of contempo…
The National Security Novel: Useful Fiction,' Persuasive Emotions, and the Securitization of Literature
Since 2015, two influential American authors and military consultants have sought to leverage imaginative literature for the cause of national security. On the basis of concepts such as useful fiction and FICINT, a shorthand for fictional intelligence, they have sought to develop a new genre—the national security novel—which blends nonfictional research and predictive threat scenarios with the creative inventions and emotional appeal of fiction. …
The Sense of Tact: Hoffmann, Maelzel, and Mechanical Music
This essay examines the notion of tact at the intersection of technology, music, and literature around 1800. Focusing on E.T.A. Hoffmann’s Der Sandmann and Die Automate, it situates his texts in the longer history of musical automata in the eighteenth century and alongside the invention of the metronome by Dietrich Nikolaus Winkel and Johann Nepomuk Maelzel in the early 19th century. This mechanization of music spurred debates about the problem o…
Sketching War: August von Larisch’s Collection of Field Maps from the Russian Campaign of 1812
During the Napoleonic Wars the military croquis, or sketch map, played an important role in the spatial management of the various campaigns. Presumably, many of these sketch maps were destroyed or discarded after their immediate use. Those that survive have received little scholarly notice. Attention is drawn in this article to a large and well-documented collection produced during the campaign in Russia in 1812 and subsequently amassed by the Sa…
The Refraction of Geometry
This essay examines the role of geometry in military theory around 1700 and its critical reception in Laurence Sterne's Tristram Shandy. Juxtaposing literature, maps, and war games, the essay outlines a poetics of war in the eighteenth century and traces the decline of the geometrical order that governs it. A forged continuation of Sterne's novel written in the immediate aftermath of the Napoleonic Wars reveals the development of a new poetics an…
Literature and Cartography: Theories, Histories, Genres
Technologies of Experience: Harun Farocki's Serious Games and Military Aesthetics
In the twenty-first century, warfare has increasingly become pervaded by fictions. Using carefully crafted virtual worlds to train, prepare, and process military engagements, the US military has co-opted and militarized a field that one does not usually associate with war—the field of aesthetics. This essay considers Harun Farocki's installation Serious Games as an index into the emergence of a newfangled military aesthetic regime. Charting the i…
Visualizing war emotions, technologies, communities: Emotions, Technologies, Communities
The Sense of Tact: Hoffmann, Maelzel, and Mechanical Music
This essay examines the notion of tact at the intersection of technology, music, and literature around 1800. Focusing on E.T.A. Hoffmann’s Der Sandmann and Die Automate, it situates his texts in the longer history of musical automata in the eighteenth century and alongside the invention of the metronome by Dietrich Nikolaus Winkel and Johann Nepomuk Maelzel in the early 19th century. This mechanization of music spurred debates about the problem o…
Sound Figures: Between Physics and Aesthetics
War atmospheres
This article examines warfare as a problem of knowledge in the military theory, realist literature, and cartography of the nineteenth century. Against the background of the Napoleonic Wars, Carl von Clausewitz, Stendhal, and Charles Joseph Minard in different ways conceived of warfare as a profoundly contingent phenomenon that required a shift of metaphors and the development of new forms of representation. In each instance, meteorological phenom…
How do wars end? A multidisciplinary enquiry
The cessation of military confrontations rarely coincides with the end of war. Legal and political matters continue after the last shot has been fired, civilians driven from their homes try to rebuild their houses and their lives, veterans need to adapt to their new role in civil society, and the struggle to define the history and the significance of past events only begins. In recent years, in particular, the changes in the character of contempo…
Covid-19 og krigen som metafor
A lexander M ikaberidze . The Napoleonic Wars. A Global History
We don’t usually underestimate the impact of the Napoleonic Wars. In recent years in particular, the period from 1792 to 1815 has been the subject of a renewed focus on the transformative force of large-scale mass warfare as historians of all stripes have charted the upending of societal structures, the redrawing of political maps, the repercussions in culture and the arts, and the changes in the very concept of war itself. With few exceptions, h…
Is Society at War? Le Colonel Foucault
Is Society at War?Le Colonel Foucault Anders Engberg-Pedersen In 1817, in a small, stuffy legal office of a solicitor by the name of Derville, six law clerks confront a strange figure: an uncouth old man in a worn cloak, who has for the fifth time sought to gain entry to the space of the law. The immature clerks inform him that the solicitor only works during the night and suggest that he return at one in the morning. Once again the claimant leav…
War and Literary Studies
Operation Valhalla: Writings on War, Weapons, and Media
The Aesthetics of Naval War Literature: Outline of a Theoretical Framework
The National Security Novel: Useful Fiction,' Persuasive Emotions, and the Securitization of Literature
Since 2015, two influential American authors and military consultants have sought to leverage imaginative literature for the cause of national security. On the basis of concepts such as useful fiction and FICINT, a shorthand for fictional intelligence, they have sought to develop a new genre—the national security novel—which blends nonfictional research and predictive threat scenarios with the creative inventions and emotional appeal of fiction. …
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