Abstract
Matthew Potolsky’s brilliantly woven The National Security Sublime: On the Aesthetics of Government Secrecy offers a powerful and engaging discussion of national security and government secrecy. His findings concerning the influence artists have on citizens’ perception of national security is a major contribution to the field. It highlights Americans false sense of awareness regarding government secrecy, that in itself enables government secrecy. Potolsky has made a massive contribution to the study of government secrecy that is sure to spark future research concerning the intersection of national security and aesthetics.
Highlights
According to Matthew Potolsky, the national security sublime is the “understudied convention for representing the covert activities of the national security state" (3)
Potolsky has made a massive contribution to the study of government secrecy that is sure to spark future research concerning the intersection of national security and aesthetics
Potolsky’s analysis of government secrecy focuses on the national security state, which he argues has become so large and complex that its shape and contours can only be communicated through aesthetics
Summary
According to Matthew Potolsky, the national security sublime is the “understudied convention for representing the covert activities of the national security state" (3). Matthew Potolsky’s The National Security Sublime: On the Aesthetics of Government Secrecy "Matthew Potolsky’s The National Security Sublime: On the Aesthetics of Government Secrecy." Secrecy and Society 2(2).
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