bokomslag Postmodern War
Filosofi & religion

Postmodern War

Chris Hables Gray

Inbunden

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  • 326 sidor
  • 1997
Postmodern War poses an urgent challenge to the ways we conceptualize and actually wage war in our high technology age. Computerization and artificial intelligence have brought about a revolution in warfare spawning both increasingly powerful weapons and a rhetoric which disguises their apocalyptic potential in catch phrases like smart weapons and bloodless combat. Postmodern War examines: * contemporary practices of war, defining and critiquing trendy military doctrines hidden behind phrases like Infowar and Cyberwar * the roles of those who manipulate high technology, those who are manipulated by it, and those who are increasingly merging with it * the role of peace activists and socially responsible scientists in countering dangerous assumptions made by a postmodern military. Far from opposing technological change, however, Gray finds new hopes for peace in the twenty-first century. Provocative and far-reaching in its scope, the book argues that postmodern war has left us poised between the most dreadful and most utopian of alternatives: we may eradicate either the human race or war itself.
  • Författare: Chris Hables Gray
  • Illustratör: facsimiles
  • Format: Inbunden
  • ISBN: 9780415166911
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 326
  • Utgivningsdatum: 1997-06-01
  • Förlag: Routledge