Armor and anesthesia: exposure, feeling, and the soldier's body.
Armor and anesthesia: exposure, feeling, and the soldier's body.
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装甲和麻醉：暴露、感觉和士兵的身体。
DOI：
10.1111/j.1548-1387.2011.01196.x
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发表时间：
2012
影响因子：
2.2
通讯作者：
MacLeish,KennethT
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作者：
MacLeish,KennethT
对许多平民来说，美国士兵装备的高科技武器、装甲和军事医学呈现出致命能力和身体刀枪不入的形象。但是，正如本文所探讨的那样，士兵们自己也经常将现代战争中维持生命的技术与各种感受联系在一起，从对暴露于伤害的实用主义矛盾心理到令人深感不安的脆弱性。这篇文章是基于美国陆军基地士兵和军人家庭的实地调查。胡德，检查感官和情感方面的士兵的亲密身体关系的技术，交替或甚至同时使他们活着，使他们受到伤害。我认为，现代军事纪律和技术合谋培养士兵作为高度持久的，有能力的，无情的，可互换的身体，或者可以被称为，后苏珊巴克-莫尔斯（1992），麻醉科目。但对士兵本身来说，他们的训练、战斗环境、防护装备和武器是情感和身体感受的丰富源泉，这种情感和身体感受存在于复杂的张力中，同时也深深感受到在极端不适和危险面前继续战斗的军事必要性。[Iraq战争，美国军事，装甲，生物政治，体现，感官]
For many civilians, the high‐tech weapons, armor, and military medicine with which U.S. soldiers are equipped present an image of lethal capacity and physical invulnerability. But, as this article explores, soldiers themselves just as often associate the life‐sustaining technology of modern warfare with feelings that range from a pragmatic ambivalence about exposure to harm all the way to profoundly unsettling vulnerability. This article, based on fieldwork among soldiers and military families at the U.S. Army's Ft. Hood, examines sensory and affective dimensions of soldiers’ intimate bodily relationships with the technologies that alternately or even simultaneously keep them alive and expose them to harm. I argue that modern military discipline and technology conspire to cultivate soldiers as highly durable, capable, unfeeling, interchangeable bodies, or what might be called, afterSusan Buck‐Morss (1992), anesthetic subjects. But for soldiers themselves, their training, combat environment, protective gear, and weapons are a rich font of both emotional and bodily feeling that exists in complex tension with the also deeply felt military imperative to carry on in the face of extreme discomfort and danger.[Iraq War, U.S. military, armor, biopolitics, embodiment, the senses]