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Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Series Editors' Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction: The Long Cold War -- I Pattern Recognition -- 1 The Future: RAND, Brand and Dangerous to Know -- 2 Simulate, Optimise, Partition: Algorithmic Diagrams of Pattern Recognition from 1953 Onwards -- 3 Impulsive Synchronisation: A Conversation on Military Technologies and Audiovisual Arts -- II The Persistence of the Nuclear -- 4 The Meaning of Monte Bello -- 5 Deep Geological Disposal and Radioactive Time: Beckett, Bowen, Nirex and Onkalo -- 6 Shifting the Nuclear Imaginary: Art and the Flight from Nuclear Modernity -- 7 Alchemical Transformations? Fictions of the Nuclear State after 1989 -- III Ubiquitous Surveillance -- 8 'The Very Form of Perverse Artificial Societies': The Unstable Emergence of the Network Family from its Cold War Nuclear Bunker -- 9 The Signal-Haunted Cold War: Persistence of the SIGINT Ontology -- 10 'Bulk Surveillance', or The Elegant Technicities of Metadata -- IV Pervasive Mediations -- 11 Notes from the Underground: Microwaves, Backbones, Party Lines and the Post Office Tower -- 12 Insect Technics: War Vision Machines -- 13 Overt Research -- 14 Smart Dust and Remote Sensing: The Political Subject in Autonomous Systems -- Index