Synthetic Reality and Blind Flight: The Operationalization of Perception
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https://doi.org/10.7146/politik.v20i1.27643Abstract
In our contribution we trace the emergence of human perception as an actual object of design and engineering in the early history of aviation through the postwar rise of human factors studies, and into military research and its respective industries today. In this survey, (perceptual) engineering and high-technology weapons such as remote- controlled or (partially) automated drones blend into a military policy that distances human operators from the ‘theater of war.’ As we argue, this new form of warfare with its visual technologies (‘Synthetic Vision Systems’) and mental ecologies (Situational Awareness) is aligned with a ‘logic of simulation,’ as discusses by Jacques Rancière in his political theory of in/visibility.
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Eschenbach, W 1941, ‘Eine Fliegerdrehkammer als psychotechnisches Forschungsgerät’, Industrielle Psychotechnik vol. 18, no.1, pp. 24–28.
Foster, H 1988, Vision and Visuality, Bay Press, Seattle.
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Gundlach, H 1996, ‘Faktor Mensch im Krieg. Der Eintritt der Psychologie und Psychotechnik in den Krieg, ’ Berichte zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte, vol. 19, Wiley, Weinheim.
Hunter, W S 1946, ‘Psychology in the War,’ American Psychologist, vol. 1, no. 11, pp. 479-492.
Kracheel, K 1993, Flugführungssysteme – Blindfluginstrumente, Autopiloten, Flugsteuerungen, Bernhard und Graefe, Bonn.
Kronfeld, A 1919, ‘Über eine experimentell-psychologische Tauglichkeitsprüfung zum Flugdienst’, in Untersuchungen über die psychische Eignung zum Flugdienst, O Lipmann & W Stern (red.), Barth, Leipzig.
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Manovich, L 2001, The Language of New Media, MIT Press, Cambridge, Mass.
Moede , W 1919, Die Experimentalpsychologie im Dienste des Wirtschaftslebens, Springer, Berlin.
Münnich, K 1937, ‘Der Mensch als Unfallursache bei Flugzeugabstürzen’, Industrielle Psychotechnik, vol. 14, no. 5, pp. 140–147.
Nanz, T 2003, ‘Blindflug: Psychotechniken des Piloten’, Österreichische Zeitschrift für Geschichtswissenschaften vol. 14, no. 3, pp. 29–49.
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Siegert, B 1992, ‘Luftwaffe Fotografie. Luftkrieg als Bildverarbeitungssystem 1911-1921’, Fotogeschichte. Beiträge zur
Geschichte und Ästhetik der Fotografie, vol. 12, no. 45/46, pp. 41-54.
Somaini A 2016, ‘Walter Benjamin’s Media Theory: The Medium and the Apparat’, Grey Room, vol. 62, pp. 6-41.
Suchman L 2015, ‘Situational Awareness: Deadly Bioconvergence at the Boundaries of Bodies and Machines’, MediaTropes eJournal, vol. 5, no. 1, pp. 1-24.
Van Creveld, J 2011, The Age of Airpower, Public Affairs, New York.
Virilio, P 1989, War and Cinema: The Logistics of Perception, Trans. P Camiller, Verso, London/New York.
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Franz, N., & Ladewig, R. (2017). Synthetic Reality and Blind Flight: The Operationalization of Perception. Politik, 20(1). https://doi.org/10.7146/politik.v20i1.27643
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