The General’s Stork
ed. by Anthony Downey ; with contr. by Adam Harvey, Adel Iskandar, Haitham Mossad and Laura Poitras
- Author(s)
- Adam Harvey, Adel Iskandar, Haitham Mossad, Laura Poitras
- Editor(s)
- Anthony Downey
- Publication
- London : Sternberg, 2020
- Scope
- 160 Pages, illustrated, 18 cm.
- ISBN
- 9783956794780
In 2013, Egyptian authorities detained a migratory stork for espionage. This incident is the focus of Heba Y. Amin’s The General’s Stork, an ongoing project that investigates the politics of aerial surveillance- against the backdrop of biblical prophecies, drone warfare, and colonial narratives—from a bird’s-eye view. The research that informs The General’s Stork looks at how conquest from the sky - through land surveying, mapping, bombing, and drone technologies - has effectively transformed Western power into a spectacle of high-tech weaponry. Through the lens of paranoia that can lead to a bird being accused of spying, this volume reveals the extent to which military techniques of visualization define and ultimately delimit the topography of the Middle East.
- Person as subject
- Heba Y Amin
- Keywords
- surveillance , fear
- Location
- Cabinet 11 - 4: Surveillance ; Veiligheid ; Angst
- Remarks
- Incl. contributor Biographies
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