Radical War
Data, Attention and Control in the Twenty-First Century
Published on 1. July 2022
Book
Paperback/Softback
376 pages
978-0-19-765654-9 (ISBN)
Description
This book examines the digital explosion that has ripped across the battlefield, weaponizing our attention and making everyone a participant in wars without end. "Smart" devices, apps, archives and algorithms remove the bystander from war, collapsing the distinctions between audience and actor, soldier and civilian, media and weapon. This has ruptured our capacity to make sense of war. Now we are all either victims or perpetrators.
In Radical War, Ford and Hoskins reveal how contemporary war is legitimized, planned, fought, experienced, remembered and forgotten in a continuous and connected way, through digitally
saturated fields of perception. Plotting the emerging relationship between data, attention and the power to control war, the authors chart the complex digital and human interdependencies that sustain political violence today. Through a unique, interdisciplinary lens, they map our disjointed experiences of conflict and illuminate this dystopian new ecology of war.
In Radical War, Ford and Hoskins reveal how contemporary war is legitimized, planned, fought, experienced, remembered and forgotten in a continuous and connected way, through digitally
saturated fields of perception. Plotting the emerging relationship between data, attention and the power to control war, the authors chart the complex digital and human interdependencies that sustain political violence today. Through a unique, interdisciplinary lens, they map our disjointed experiences of conflict and illuminate this dystopian new ecology of war.
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 212 mm
Width: 139 mm
Thickness: 26 mm
Weight
390 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-19-765654-9 (9780197656549)
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Persons
Matthew Ford is Senior Lecturer in International Relations, University of Sussex; founding editor of the British Journal for Military History; and author of Weapon of Choice.
Andrew Hoskins is Professor of Global Security, University of Glasgow; and founding editor of the journals Digital War; Memory, Mind & Media; and Memory Studies.
Andrew Hoskins is Professor of Global Security, University of Glasgow; and founding editor of the journals Digital War; Memory, Mind & Media; and Memory Studies.
Content
List of diagrams
Acknowledgements
Diagram: mapping the new war ecology
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Prologue: war since 9/11
Introduction
Radical War - a definition
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Chapter 1 - war and the democratisation of perception
Chapter 2 - understanding the new war ecology
**Part 1 - Data**
Chapter 3 - the ruptured battlefield
**Part 2 - Attention**
Chapter 4 - the radical past
Chapter 5 - the weaponised archive
**Part 3 - Control**
Chapter 6 - technologies of control
Chapter 7 - Conclusion
Epilogue
Appendix 1 - glossary of terms
Bibliography
Acknowledgements
Diagram: mapping the new war ecology
*****
Prologue: war since 9/11
Introduction
Radical War - a definition
*****
Chapter 1 - war and the democratisation of perception
Chapter 2 - understanding the new war ecology
**Part 1 - Data**
Chapter 3 - the ruptured battlefield
**Part 2 - Attention**
Chapter 4 - the radical past
Chapter 5 - the weaponised archive
**Part 3 - Control**
Chapter 6 - technologies of control
Chapter 7 - Conclusion
Epilogue
Appendix 1 - glossary of terms
Bibliography