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War and Algorithm (Hardcover)
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War and Algorithm (Hardcover)
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Traditional concepts of social, political, and legal theory are
increasingly at odds with current practices of warfare, while more
recent poststructuralist theories tend to mimic their form. A
conceptual framework for capturing the real-world phenomena is
missing. In robotics and artificial intelligence, particularly in
weapon systems that are constituted as man-machine ensembles, there
are no longer 'agents' to whom 'responsibility' could be ascribed,
making fundamental legal concepts inapplicable. These technologies
become self-validating, morally blind practices. And yet, the
visual systems employed in warfare, and the rhetoric surrounding
them, follow the paradigm and dream of omnivoyance, a God's eye
view of the world. This idea of perfect accuracy and completeness
of vision (and hence knowledge) seemingly affords objectivity to
the acts carried out by the systems. It is forgotten that any form
of vision produces its own forms of invisibilities (and therefore
ignorance). Together the three chapters and their respondents
demonstrate that it is less and less possible to articulate the
oppositions between knowledge and ignorance, lawfulness and
lawlessness, and visibility and invisibility, leading to a stasis
in which acts of war, and war-like acts continue to spread, while
their precise nature becomes increasingly difficult to pin down.
Closing on a manifesto, jointly authored by Liljefors, Noll and
Steuer, the book draws further conclusions regarding the changing
forms of violence and likely consequences of a fully digitalized
world.
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