Radical War: Data, Attention and Control in the Twenty-First Century Ford Matthew
Radical War: Data, Attention and Control in the Twenty-First Century Ford Matthew This book examines the digital explosion that has ripped across the battlefield, weaponizing our attention and making…
Specifikacia Radical War: Data, Attention and Control in the Twenty-First Century Ford Matthew
Radical War: Data, Attention and Control in the Twenty-First Century Ford Matthew
This book examines the digital explosion that has ripped across the battlefield, weaponizing our attention and making everyone a participant in wars without end. This has ruptured our capacity to make sense of war. "Smart" devices, apps, archives and algorithms remove the bystander from war, collapsing the distinctions between audience and actor, soldier and civilian, media and weapon.
Through a unique, 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.