Gateways to Bletchley

Gair Dunlop

doi:10.1215/17432197-2651747

Gateways to Bletchley

Gair Dunlop

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Abstract

Bletchley Park is a former country estate, with a large house in an undistinguished late Victorian style. During its time as the Headquarters of UK cryptanalysis efforts in WW2, its grounds began to fill with huts, followed by massive information processing blocks. In the postwar era, elements of the intelligence services remained until much of it became a telecommunications training school.
It can be seen as an underacknowledged cauldron of information processing experimentation, a cinematic cypher, and a prism through which we can view British senses of wartime, class, transatlantic power, stunted modernity, the military roots of the information age, and relations to ruin and redevelopment.
The artists contributions to Cultural Politics are always Open Access but they would naturally prefer access through their own portal at http://culturalpolitics.dukejournals.org/content/10/2/151.full

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	151-162
Number of pages	12
Journal	Cultural Politics
Volume	10
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1215/17432197-2651747
Publication status	Published - Jul 2014

Keywords

'Bletchely Park'
cryptography
future war monuments
cyber warfare
Colossus
Enigma
history of technology
'photo essay'
'film studies'

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Visual Arts and Performing Arts

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The artists contributions to Cultural Politics are always "Open Access" but they would naturally prefer access through their own portal at http://culturalpolitics.dukejournals.org/content/10/2/151.full
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2 Citations
1 Chapter

Relics of acceleration: a field guide
Dunlop, G., 2013, Virilio and visual culture. Armitage, J. & Bishop, R. (eds.). Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, p. 207-226 20 p. (Critical connections).
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Dunlop, Gair
- Contemporary Art Practice - Senior Lecturer (Teaching and Research)
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Gateways to Bletchley

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