{"product_id":"on-posthuman-war-computation-and-military-violence-hardback-9780816660896","title":"On Posthuman War; Computation and Military Violence (Hardback) 9780816660896","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eOn Posthuman War\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eComputation and Military Violence\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eMike Hill (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780816660896\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 16 August 2022\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e248 pages\u003cbr\u003e21.6 x 14 x 2.5 cm, 0.386 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e \"\u003ci\u003eOn Posthuman War\u003c\/i\u003e offers a compelling new account of the systemic militarization of human experience. Describing the weaponization of thought that has turned the brain itself into a combat zone, Mike Hill shows that the most basic epistemological and ontological questions can now only be posed from within the war machine.\"-Jan Mieszkowski, author of \u003ci\u003eWatching War\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \"As Mike Hill demonstrates, war has become woven into the fabric of all our lives through the woof and warp of data and virtuality, and his discussion reaches deeply into the ontological import of this process. This is a book for our times, at once compelling and chilling, lively and optimistic.\"-Geoffrey C. Bowker, University of California, Irvine \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \"Flowing between philosophy, communication methods and the politics of diversity and race, the book bridges fields and informatively navigates the politics of war.\"-\u003ci\u003eInternational Journal of Communication\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e   \u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eTracing war’s expansion beyond the battlefield to the concept of the human being itself\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAs military and other forms of political violence become the planetary norm, \u003ci\u003eOn Posthuman War\u003c\/i\u003e traces the expansion of war beyond traditional theaters of battle. Drawing on counterinsurgency field manuals, tactical manifestos, data-driven military theory, and asymmetrical-war archives, Mike Hill delineates new “Areas of Operation” within a concept of the human being as not only a social and biological entity but also a technical one.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDelving into three human-focused disciplines newly turned against humanity, \u003ci\u003eOn\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003ePosthuman War\u003c\/i\u003e reveals how demography, anthropology, and neuroscience have intertwined since 9\/11 amid the “Revolution in Military Affairs.”  Beginning with the author’s personal experience training with U.S. Marine recruits at Parris Island, Hill gleans insights from realist philosophy, the new materialism, and computational theory to show how the human being, per se, has been reconstituted from neutral citizen to unwitting combatant. As evident in the call for “bullets, beans, and data,” whatever can be parted out, counted, and reassembled can become war materiel. Hill shows how visible and invisible wars within identity, community, and cognition shift public-sphere activities, like racial identification, group organization, and even thought itself, in the direction of war. This shift has weaponized social activities against the very notion of society. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eOn Posthuman War\u003c\/i\u003e delivers insights on the latest war technologies, strategies, and tactics while engaging in questions poised to overturn the foundations of modern political thought.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAbbreviations\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePreface: Supping with the Devil Dogs\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIntroduction: Number Rules\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe \u003ci\u003eTerrorist Recognition Handbook\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCybernetics and Netcentric War\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Lords of Things as They Are\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRealism and Posthuman War\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSystem-of-Systems\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSummary of Remaining Chapters\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e1. War Demography\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Revolution in Military Affairs\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eU.S. Census Politics and the Coming White Minority\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Graveyard of the Human Race\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRace War\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Algorithmic Unconscious\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e2. War Anthropology\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Human Terrain System Program\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eData as Physical Transmission\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNational Character Study in World War II\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCounterinsurgency Theory and Vietnam\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eQuantum Systems and Asymmetrical War\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhite Afghans\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e3. War Neuroscience\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Functional Combatant\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLiving Matter\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCartography and Virtual Reality\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Human Brain as Image Generator\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOpto-Electronics\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eVirtuality and War\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhite Matter\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNotes\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Univ Of Minnesota Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52570071859480,"sku":"9780816660896","price":67.68,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/on-posthuman-war-computation-and-military-violence-hardback-9780816660896","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}