Radical War: Data, Attention and Control in the Twenty-First Century - Softcover

Ford, Matthew; Hoskins, Andrew

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1787386996 ISBN 13: 9781787386990

Publisher: C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd, 2022

Synopsis

This book examines the digital explosion that has ripped across the battlefield, weaponising our attention and making everyone a participant in wars without end. 'Smart' devices, apps, archives and algorithms remove the bystander from war, collapsing the distinctions between audience and actor, soldier and civilian, media and weapon. This has ruptured our capacity to make sense of war. Now we are all either victims or perpetrators. In 'Radical War', Ford and Hoskins reveal how contemporary war is legitimised, planned, fought, experienced, remembered and forgotten in a continuous and connected way, through digitally saturated fields of perception. Plotting the emerging relationship between data, attention and the power to control war, the authors chart the complex digital and human interdependencies that sustain political violence today. Through a unique, interdisciplinary lens, they map our disjointed experiences of conflict and illuminate this dystopian new ecology of war.

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About the Author

Matthew Ford is Associate Professor in War Studies at the Swedish Defence University. The author of 'War in the Smartphone Age' and 'Weapon of Choice' (both published by Hurst), he was the founding editor of the 'British Journal for Military History'. His research focuses on technology and the conduct of war. Andrew Hoskins is Professor of Global Security, University of Glasgow; and founding editor of the journals 'Digital War; Memory, Mind & Media'; and 'Memory Studies'.

Edition details

• Publisher: C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd
• Publication date: 2022
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1787386996
• ISBN 13: 9781787386990
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 376