Radical War

Data, Attention and Control in the Twenty-First Century

Radical War
Andrew Hoskins, Matthew Ford
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Paperback
h216 x 138mm - 376pg
31 Mar 2022 UK
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9781787386990
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This book examines the digital explosion that has ripped across the battlefield, weaponising 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 legitimised, 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.
' The essential guide to the new war of all against all, where everything is weaponised, and where the lines between peace and conflict are forever blurred. ' -- Peter Pomerantsev, author of This Is Not Propaganda: Adventures in the War Against Reality ' As the security elites struggle to understand how information fits with the traditional domains of warfare, Ford and Hoskins show how information has become the overarching domain, with the smartphone, not the rifle, as the granular instrument of combat. A startling rethink of the twenty-first-century battlefield that blows away the traditional boundaries between state, society and the military. ' -- Paul Mason, journalist ' A fascinating assessment of the impact of our ubiquitous access to, and employment of, information and media. Positing a radical vision of war in which perception is reality, this book challenges our norms and, while you might not necessarily like it, you should probably read it!' -- Brigadier Khashi Sharifi OBE, British Army
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' .
Status: No local stock, title imported to order
ISBN-13: 9781787386990
Published: 31 Mar 2022
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: C Hurst & Co Publishers
Publisher: C Hurst & Co Publishers
Format: Paperback
Height: 216mm
Width: 138mm
Pages: 376

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