Technicities of Deception
Dazzle Camouflage, Avant-Gardes and Sensory Augmentation in the First World War
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12917730 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Eric B White (0000-0002-7942-015X, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 12 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 36-58 |
| Publication date | 2017-02-20 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Modernist Cultures (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1753-8629 • E-ISSN: 2041-1022 |
| Publisher | Edinburgh University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.3366/mod.2017.0155 |
| OpenAlex | W2589680298 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 4 |
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
Aesthetics · Art · Art history · Battle · Camouflage · Deception · Mediation · Political science · Sociology · Variety (cybernetics · Computer Science · History · Law · Photography and Visual Culture · World Wars: History, Literature, and Impact · Artificial Intelligence
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |