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War and Algorithm (Hardcover)
Max Liljefors, Gregor Noll, Daniel Steuer; Contributions by Allen Feldman, Howard Caygill, …
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R4,129
Discovery Miles 41 290
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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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War and Algorithm (Paperback)
Max Liljefors, Gregor Noll, Daniel Steuer; Contributions by Allen Feldman, Howard Caygill, …
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R1,292
Discovery Miles 12 920
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Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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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.
Just like the first theories in physics viewed atoms as independent
and surrounded by a void, our bodies' microscopic constituents are
often portrayed as disconnected from the body as a unified
organism, and from its cultural and social contexts. In this book
the authors examine the relations between culture, society and
bioscientific research and show how our bodies' singularised
particles indeed still are socially and culturally embedded. In
today's medicine, the biosciences are entangled with state power,
commercialism, and cultural ideas and expectations, as well as with
the hopes and fears of individuals. Therefore, biomedicine and
biotechnology also reshape our perceptions of selfhood and life.
From multidisciplinary perspectives, including visual studies,
theology, and ethnology, this volume discusses the biosciences and
the atomised body in their social, cultural and philosophical
contexts.
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