It takes the average reader 3 hours and 6 minutes to read The National Security Sublime by Matthew Potolsky
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Why do recent depictions of government secrecy and surveillance so often use images suggesting massive size and scale: gigantic warehouses, remote black sites, numberless security cameras? Drawing on post-War American art, film, television, and fiction, Matthew Potolsky argues that the aesthetic of the sublime provides a privileged window into the nature of modern intelligence, a way of describing the curiously open secret of covert operations. The book tracks the development of the national security sublime from the Cold War to the War on Terror, and places it in a long history of efforts by...
The National Security Sublime by Matthew Potolsky is 184 pages long, and a total of 46,736 words.
This makes it 62% the length of the average book. It also has 57% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 4 hours and 15 minutes to read The National Security Sublime aloud.
The National Security Sublime is suitable for students ages 10 and up.
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