War and Algorithm
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- 2019
Summary
New military technologies are animated by fantasies of perfect knowledge, lawfulness, and vision that contrast sharply with the very real limits of human understanding, law, and vision. Thus, various kinds of violent acts are proliferating while their precise nature remains unclear. Especially man–machine ensembles, guided by algorithms, are operating in ways that challenge conceptual understanding.
War and Algorithm looks at the increasing power of algorithms in these emerging forms of warfare from the perspectives of critical theory, philosophy, legal studies, and visual studies. The contributions in this volume grapple with the challenges posed by algorithmic warfare and trace the roots of new forms of war in the technological practices and forms of representation of the digital age. Together, these contributions provide a first step toward understanding—and resisting—our emerging world of war.
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- Edition
- 1/2019
- Copyright year
- 2019
- ISBN-Print
- 978-1-78661-365-3
- ISBN-Online
- 978-1-78661-366-0
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 232
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Table of contents
- Contents No access
- Acknowledgments No access
- List of Illustrations No access
- 1 Introduction: Our Emerging World of War No access Pages 1 - 8
- 2 Prolegomena to Any Future Attempt at Understanding Our Emerging World of War No access Pages 9 - 52
- 3 Anthropokenosis and the Emerging World of War No access Pages 53 - 74
- 4 War by Algorithm: The End of Law? No access Pages 75 - 104
- 5 Law’s Ends: On Algorithmic Warfare and Humanitarian Violence No access Pages 105 - 126
- 6 Omnivoyance and Blindness No access Pages 127 - 164
- 7 Of the Pointless View: From the Ecotechnology to the Echotheology of Omnivoyant War No access Pages 165 - 190
- 8 Visions No access Pages 191 - 204
- Bibliography No access Pages 205 - 222
- Index No access Pages 223 - 230
- About the Authors No access Pages 231 - 232





