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010 _a 2019032476
020 _a1478005874
_q(hardcover)
020 _a1478006579
_q(paperback)
020 _a9781478005872
_q(hardcover)
020 _a9781478006572
_q(paperback)
020 _z9781478007272
_q(ebook)
035 _a(Sirsi) a577927
040 _aDLC
_beng
_erda
_cDLC
_dOCLCO
_dOCLCF
_dNDD
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043 _an-us---
050 0 0 _aUG479
_b.P33 2020
082 0 0 _a355.40285
_223
100 1 _aPacker, Jeremy,
_d1970-
245 1 0 _aKiller apps :
_bwar, media, machine /
_cJeremy Packer and Joshua Reeves.
264 1 _aDurham ;
_aLondon :
_bDuke University Press,
_c2020.
264 4 _c©2020.
300 _ax, 270 pages :
_billustrations, maps ;
_c24 cm.
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent.
337 _aunmediated
_bn
_2rdamedia.
338 _avolume
_bnc
_2rdacarrier.
386 _mOccupational/field of activity group:
_nocc
_aUniversity and college faculty members
_2lcdgt.
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 235-259) and index.
505 0 0 _tPreface to an inauthentic document --
_tEvent matrix --
_tIdentification friend or foe --
_tCentralized control / decentralized execution --
_tIn extremis --
_tHostile environment --
_tAutonomous operation --
_tIntelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance --
_tEscalation --
_tVital ground --
_tUnidentified flying objects --
_tConclusion: Armistice.
520 _a"From the telegraph and the two-way radio to high-frequency satellites and free-space optical communications, media technologies have changed the way in which troops are organized and deployed, the constitution of armies, and the nature and definitions of warfare itself. Focusing in particular on the rise of artificial intelligence technologies, Killer Apps shows how media helps to produce enemies and enable war. Co-authors Jeremy Packer and Joshua Reeves offer what they call a polemocentric theory of media escalation, demonstrating that media will never usher in world peace. Quite the opposite-when animated by struggle, media will always escalate towards greater chaos and creative destruction. Each chapter begins with a Department of Defense definition of a military term, and draws from it to theorize the recent escalation of technologies of violence and surveillance. In one chapter, Packer and Reeves critique liberal ideologies of artificial intelligence that suggest it could offer us a feminist and egalitarian future: instead, they demonstrate, AI technologies developed by military contractors serve only to reproduce global capitalism and militarism. Another chapter takes up the historical interpenetration of climate knowledge and warfare to show how global climate catastrophe has enabled and inspired new forms of military and surveillance media technologies. Packer and Reeves trace the history of unmanned military aircraft from explosive balloons used by the Austrian military in 1849, to aerial remote-controlled torpedoes deployed in World War 1, to CIA drone attacks in Afghanistan, Yemen, and Pakistan. Finally, they turn to science fiction visions: while authors and filmmakers have often imaged post-apocalyptic moments as a setting for building a liberal future of global harmony, freedom, and unfettered capitalism, Packer and Reeves turn to science fictional visions of robot mutiny and AI-driven nuclear annihilation to consider the role militarized media will have to play in catastrophe. KILLER APPS will interest scholars of media and communication studies, technology studies, and critical studies of militarism and surveillance"--
_cProvided by publisher.
650 0 _aArmed Forces and mass media
_zUnited States.
650 0 _aArtificial intelligence
_xMilitary applications.
650 0 _aMilitary art and science
_xTechnological innovations
_xSocial aspects.
650 0 _aRobotics
_xMilitary applications.
650 0 _aWar in literature.
650 0 _aWar in mass media.
700 1 _aReeves, Joshua,
776 0 8 _iOnline version:
_aPacker, Jeremy, 1970-
_tKiller apps
_dDurham, NC : Duke University Press, 2020
_z9781478007272
_w(DLC) 2019032477.
999 _c518142
_d518142