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

• Autore: Hill Mike <1964->
• Pubblicazione: Minneapolis, Minnesota ; ; London : , : University of Minnesota Press, , [2022]; ©2022
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (260 pages)
• Disciplina: 355.80285
• Soggetto topico: Artificial intelligence - Military applications; Military art and science - Technological innovations - United States; War (Philosophy)
• 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"--
• Titolo autorizzato: On posthuman war
• ISBN: 1-4529-6744-X; 1-4529-6948-5
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910809145003321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Book collections on Project MUSE.