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Military Industrial Complex
FromHigh Theory
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Length:
16 minutes
Released:
May 20, 2022
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Podcast episode
Description
Kim talks to Patrick Deer about the Military Industrial Complex, a term used by US President Dwight D. Eisenhower in a 1961 speech to describe a permanent war economy, and the political, economic, and cultural matrix that sustains it. References are made to James Ledbetter’s book Unwarranted Influence and Seymour Melman’s book The Permanent War Economy.
Patrick Deer is Associate Professor at the Department of English, New York University. He focuses on war culture and war literature, modernism, and contemporary British and American literature and culture, and Anglophone literature and human rights. His book Culture in Camouflage explores the emergence of modern war culture in the first half of the 20th century.
Image: Scene from the film Doctor Strangelove
Music used in promotional material: “Grim Desert Aftermath” by Kevin Bryce.
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Patrick Deer is Associate Professor at the Department of English, New York University. He focuses on war culture and war literature, modernism, and contemporary British and American literature and culture, and Anglophone literature and human rights. His book Culture in Camouflage explores the emergence of modern war culture in the first half of the 20th century.
Image: Scene from the film Doctor Strangelove
Music used in promotional material: “Grim Desert Aftermath” by Kevin Bryce.
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Released:
May 20, 2022
Format:
Podcast episode
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