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War X (Hardcover, 2 Rev Ed)
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War X (Hardcover, 2 Rev Ed)
Series: Digital Futures S.
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Are we afraid of war? Has the advancement of military technology
created a mindset of invincibility on the battlefield? In War X,
Tim Blackmore argues that the technology of warfare has essentially
erased the human body from battlespace. The result is a physical
and psychological distance between humanity and bloodshed. As the
machinery of war develops, and as advances are made in the
biological sciences, war becomes increasingly palatable -
attractive, even - resulting in a sanitized murder culture in which
war is anticipated and viewed with little anxiety. Blackmore makes
connections between human beings in battle and the very different
world of weapons manufacturers, finding between the two a romance
of war technology. Using popular science fiction literature and
film, personal war narratives, biographies, and military imagery,
he explores the human body in war, the ways in which soldiers
imagine themselves superhuman - posthuman - protected by the armour
of muscles and steel, tanks and helicopters, robotics and remote
control. War X is an explosive introduction to the discussion of
modern warfare and a timely consideration of industrial warfare as
it is unfolding even now in Iraq and Afghanistan, and as it might
be in the future, with new weapon development. It is also a
deliberation on the startling world of new weapon development, and
the indescribable future of war that beckons.
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