War Virtually - Roberto J. González

War Virtually

The Quest to Automate Conflict, Militarize Data, and Predict the Future
Buch | Hardcover
270 Seiten
2022
University of California Press (Verlag)
978-0-520-38476-7 (ISBN)
31,15 inkl. MwSt
A critical look at how the US military is weaponizing technology and data for new kinds of warfare—and why we must resist.

War Virtually is the story of how scientists, programmers, and engineers are racing to develop data-driven technologies for fighting virtual wars, both at home and abroad. In this landmark book, Roberto J. González gives us a lucid and gripping account of what lies behind the autonomous weapons, robotic systems, predictive modeling software, advanced surveillance programs, and psyops techniques that are transforming the nature of military conflict. González, a cultural anthropologist, takes a critical approach to the techno-utopian view of these advancements and their dubious promise of a less deadly and more efficient warfare.  
With clear, accessible prose, this book exposes the high-tech underpinnings of contemporary military operations—and the cultural assumptions they're built on. Chapters cover automated battlefield robotics; social scientists' involvement in experimental defense research; the blurred line between political consulting and propaganda in the internet era; and the military's use of big data to craft new counterinsurgency methods based on predicting conflict. González also lays bare the processes by which the Pentagon and US intelligence agencies have quietly joined forces with Big Tech, raising an alarming prospect: that someday Google, Amazon, and other Silicon Valley firms might merge with some of the world's biggest defense contractors. War Virtually takes an unflinching look at an algorithmic future—where new military technologies threaten democratic governance and human survival.

Roberto J. González is Professor of Anthropology at San José State University. He has authored several books including Militarizing Culture: Essays on the Warfare State and American Counterinsurgency: Human Science and the Human Terrain.

Contents

List of Illustrations
List of Terms and Abbreviations

1. War Virtually
2. Requiem for a Robot
3. Pentagon West
4. The Dark Arts
5. Juggernaut
6. Precogs, Inc.
7. Postdata

Acknowledgments
Appendix: Sub-rosa Research
Notes
References
Index

Erscheinungsdatum
Zusatzinfo 21 b-w photographs, 2 tables
Verlagsort Berkerley
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 229 mm
Gewicht 499 g
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Archäologie
Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie
Sozialwissenschaften Politik / Verwaltung Staat / Verwaltung
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie
ISBN-10 0-520-38476-8 / 0520384768
ISBN-13 978-0-520-38476-7 / 9780520384767
Zustand Neuware
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