Aerial life : spaces, mobilities, affects /
Peter Adey.
- xii, 283 pages : illustrations, map ; 23 cm.
- RGS-IBG book series .
- RGS-IBG book series. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction -- Prologue -- Aerial Life -- Powering Up Aerial Geographies -- The Organization of the Book -- Becoming Aerial -- Birth of the Aerial Body -- Introduction -- Beginnings -- The Flesh of the Aerial Youth -- Simulation -- Conclusion -- The Projection and Performance of Airspace -- Introduction -- Building a Political Space: Identity, Boundedness and the Sanctity of Territory -- Undoing Aerial Space: Post-nationalism and Projective Power -- Conclusion -- Governing Aerial Life -- Aerial Views: Bodies, Borders and Biopolitics -- Introduction -- Seeing the Wood for the Trees: Targeting, Administering and Managing -- Populations -- Techniques of the Observer /Observed -- Three-Dimensional Vision -- Conclusion -- Profiling Machines -- Introduction -- Imagining the Pilot /Passenger -- Sorting -- Modifying -- Conclusion -- Aerial Aggression -- Aerial Environments -- Introduction -- The Emergence of a Target -- Systems, Circulations and Ecological Warfare -- Air Conditioning -- Conclusion -- Subjects under Siege -- Warning -- Introduction -- The Anatomy of Panic -- Imaginations and Urgencies -- Vigilance and the Social as Circuit -- Entrainment -- Conclusion -- Conclusion -- Environments -- Futures -- Aerial Turns. 1. Part I. 2. 3. Part II. 4. 5. Part III. 6. 7. 8.
1405182628 9781405182621 140518261X 9781405182614
2009052085
Aeronautics--Social aspects Air travel--Social aspects Human geography Social mobility