Imperial secrets remapping the mind of empire
[Pt. 1]. Introduction -- An empire of information -- [Pt. 2]. Law, map and text: how empires know -- Thuggee: making the invisible visible -- Sai bil' fesad: fomenting evil in the world -- Rome: concealing and revealing -- Barzakh: the intermediate world -- Rhizomes: unity and multiplicity -- N...
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Center for Strategic Intelligence Research, National Defense Intelligence College
2008
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | [Pt. 1]. Introduction -- An empire of information -- [Pt. 2]. Law, map and text: how empires know -- Thuggee: making the invisible visible -- Sai bil' fesad: fomenting evil in the world -- Rome: concealing and revealing -- Barzakh: the intermediate world -- Rhizomes: unity and multiplicity -- Nomads and states: tent of Osman/House of Osman -- Chrono-politics: the accelerating archive -- Apocalypse: the Sepoy Revolt of 1857 -- [Pt. 3]. Dress, discourse and imagination: How empires learn to know differently -- Masquerade: agents and actors -- Josephus: the "Hellenizing" Glass -- Derive and drift: Evliya Celebi, an Ottoman situationist -- Boukoloi: historicizing fiction/fictionalizing history -- Ekphrasis: showing or telling? -- Boudica: a terrible disaster -- Lessons learned (or rather ... observed). Product Description: This book explores the limits of institutional knowledge. What does an empire know and how does it know it? How does its own culture, general or bureaucratic, shape the information it receives and its ability to "process" information. Army Foreign Area Officer Maj. Patrick Kelley takes us through historical and cultural terrain never before traveled in a virtuoso exercise of cross-disciplinary analysis that is as much fun as it is thought provoking. Not since Spengler or Voegelin tackled civilization dynamics has empire been subject to such original and erudite treatment on such a grand scale. Imperial Secrets is sui generis and Kelley has invented a new field: imperial informatics. Policymakers would do well to read and ponder this book before taking their next major decision. |
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| Beschreibung: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 199-223) |
| Beschreibung: | xvi, 231 S. Ill. 24 cm |
| ISBN: | 9781932946208 978-1-932946-20-8 9780160817311 978-0-16-081731-1 |