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Record Nr.

UNINA9910809145003321

Autore

Hill Mike <1964->

Titolo

On posthuman war : computation and military violence / / Mike Hill

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Minneapolis, Minnesota ; ; London : , : University of Minnesota Press, , [2022]

©2022

ISBN

1-4529-6744-X

1-4529-6948-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (260 pages)

Disciplina

355.80285

Soggetti

Artificial intelligence - Military applications

Military art and science - Technological innovations - United States

War (Philosophy)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction: number rules -- The terrorist recognition handbook -- Cybernetics and netcentric war -- The lords of things as they are -- Realism and posthuman war -- System-of-systems -- War demography -- The revolution in military affairs -- U.S. Census politics and the coming white minority -- The graveyard of the human race -- Race war -- The algorithmic unconscious -- War anthropology -- The human terrain system program -- Data as physical transmission -- National character study in World War II -- Counterinsurgency theory and Vietnam -- Quantum systems and asymmetrical war -- White Afghans -- War neuroscience -- The functional combatant -- Living matter -- Cartography and virtual reality -- The human brain as image generator -- Opto-electronics -- Virtuality and war -- White matter.

Sommario/riassunto

"Mike Hill delivers insights on the latest war technologies, strategies, and tactics while engaging in questions poised to overturn the foundations of modern political thought. Beginning with his personal experience training U.S. Marine recruits, he gleans insights from realist philosophy, the new materialism, and computational theory to show how the human being has been reconstituted from neutral citizen to unwitting combatant"--