Idioticon Podcast

Idioticon Podcast. Series One. Oblique Effects. Emily and I discuss her work on critical finance, among other things. Emily Rosamond is a Canadian writer and artist based in London. She is Lecturer in Visual Cultures at Goldsmiths, University of London, where she serves as Joint Programme Leader, BA Fine Art and History of Art, and Department Chair of Learning and Teaching. Her recent publications have appeared in Theory, Culture & Society, Journal of Aesthetics & Culture, Paragrana, Finance and Society, and International Journal of Performance Arts and Digital Media, among others. She is currently working on a two-person exhibition at SixtyEight Art Institute, Copenhagen, and a monograph on online reputation, forthcoming from Zone Books.

Idioticon Podcast. Series One. Oblique Effects. Antoine and I discuss his recent (and excellent) book, and get involved in quite a few tangents. Antoine Bousquet is Reader in International Relations at Birkbeck, University of London. He is the author of “The Eye of War: Military Perception from the Telescope to the Drone” (University of Minnesota Press, 2018), a multiple award-winning investigation of military perception technologies. His first monograph “The Scientific Way of Warfare: Order and Chaos on the Battlefields of Modernity” (Hurst/Columbia, 2009) is a widely cited account of the influence of major scientific paradigms and key associated technologies on the conceptualisation and practice of war in the modern era. His second monograph. He has also contributed an array of peer-reviewed articles and book chapters on subjects that include Cold War computing, the revolution in military affairs, jihadist networks, complexity theory, violent aesthetics, nihilism, and the conceptualisation of war. His personal website can be found at https://www.eyeofwar.com/