Light it up : the marine eye for battle in the War of Iraq / / John Pettergrew

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910460325303321
• Autore: Pettegrew John <1959->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Baltimore, Maryland : , : Johns Hopkins University Press, , 2015; ©2015
• ISBN: 1-4214-1786-3
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (232 p.)
• Disciplina: 956.704434
• Soggetti: Iraq War, 2003-2011; Iraq War, 2003-2011 - Psychological aspects; Combat - Psychological aspects; Video games - Social aspects; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Introduction: Force projection and the Marine eye for battle -- Shock and awe and air power -- Network-centric warfare, sensors and total situational awareness -- "Shock and awe: achieving rapid dominance" and the Iraq invasion -- Kill boxes, litening pods and the 3d aircraft wing -- "Keep your eyes out," fair fighting, and memories of killing -- Of war porn and pleasure in killing -- Pornography is the theory, and killing the practice -- Classic Hollywood combat films -- Marine Moto on YouTube -- The Iraq War on television -- Fallujah, first to fight, and Ludology -- Ender's Game and the rise of simulation in military training, 1995-2005 -- From combat films to video games -- The value added to military training -- Fighting in the digitized streets of Beirut -- Counterinsurgency and "turning off the killing switch" -- Empathy, General Mattis and the profound paradox of Marine humanitarianism -- Haditha, acute stress, and the excesses of occupying force -- USMC literary culture and warrior ethos -- "Which way would you run?" -- Posthuman warfighting -- Marines in science fiction and in space -- The post-masculinist Marines and new optics of combat -- The gladiator robot and the critique of remote warfare -- ; Synthetic vision of war; conclusion and epilogue -- Biopolitics and the costs of war -- Digital culture and the computational marine -- Subjectivity lives and dies.

Alfred Dreyfus : Man, Milieu, Mentality and Midrash / / Norman Simms

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910433250103321
• Autore: Simms Norman
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Academic Studies Press, 2008; Boston, MA : , : Academic Studies Press, , [2020]; ©2011
• ISBN: 9781644693254; 1644693259
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (336 p.)
• Collana: Reference Library of Jewish Intellectual History
• Soggetti: HISTORY / Europe / Western
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Prologue -- Chapter One: Introduction -- Chapter Two: Bodies of Evidence -- Chapter Three: The Phantasmagoria of a Secular Midrash -- Epilogue -- Bibliography -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: This groundbreaking book focuses on Alfred Dreyfus the man, with emphasis placed on his own writings, including his recently published prison workbooks and his letters to his wife Lucie. Through close reading of these documents, a much more sensitive, intellectual, and Jewish man is revealed than was previously suspected. He and Lucie, through their family connections and mutual loyalty, were interested in and supported the artistic, scientific, philosophical and historical movements that formed their Parisian milieu. But as an Alsatian Jew, Alfred was also critical of many aspects of technological and ideological developments, making his mentality one of skepticism as well as idealism. Norman Simms addresses the way Dreyfus perceived the world, challenged many of its assumptions and contextualized it in the style of a rabbinical midrash, a process that created what Alfred called ; a “phantasmagoria” of the Affair that bears his name, and also interprets the man, his milieu and his mentality in the style of a midrash, a creative, transformative reading.