War and Aesthetics: Art, Technology, and the Futures of Warfare

＂The book brings together leading contemporary thinkers of war to outline the aesthetic dimension of warfare across art, technology, and politics＂--

Jens Bjering earned his PhD at the University of Copenhagen with a thesis on post-9/11 US torture and is now a consultant at the Royal Danish Defence College.

Anders Engberg-Pedersen is Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Southern Denmark, Chair of Humanities at the Danish Institute for Advanced Studies, and series editor ofPrisms: Humanities and War(MIT Press). He is the author of Martial Aesthetics: How War Became an Art Form.


Solveig Gade is Associate Professor of Theatre and Performance Studies in the Department of Arts and Cultural Studies at the University of Copenhagen and coeditor of (W)archives: Archival Imaginaries, War, and Contemporary Art.


Christine Strandmose Toft holds a PhD in Comparative Literature. She earned her degree at the Department for the Study of Culture, University of Southern Denmark, with a thesis on the representations of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan in fiction.