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Proto-Algorithmic War

Name: Proto-Algorithmic War
Brand: Springer International Publishing AG
SKU: 9783031042188
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How the Iraq War became a laboratory for algorithmic logics

Autor: Stefka Hristova

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Editura: Springer International Publishing AG

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During the Iraq War, American soldiers were sent to both fight an enemy and to recover a "failed sta...

Informații despre carte

Autor

Stefka Hristova

Limbă

engleză

Legare

Carte - Copertă tare

Publicat

2022

Pagini

180

EAN

9783031042188

Enbook ID

38874574

Editura

Springer International Publishing AG

Greutate

374

Dimensiuni

216 x 153 x 18

Descriere completă

During the Iraq War, American soldiers were sent to both fight an enemy and to recover a "failed state" in pixelated camouflage uniforms, accompanied by robots, and armed with satellite maps and biometric hand-held scanners. The Iraq War, however, was no digital game: massive-scale physical death and destruction counter the vision of a clean replayable war. The military policy of the United States, and not the actual experience of war, has been rooted in the logic of digital, and nascent algorithmic technology. This logic attempted to reduce culture, society, as well as the physical body and environment into visual data that lacks cultural and historical context. This book details the emergence of a nascent algorithmic war culture in the context of the Iraq War (2003-2010) in relation to the data-driven early 20th century British Mandate for Iraq. Through a series of six inquiries into the ways in which the Iraq War attempted to and often failed to see population and territory as digital and further proto-algorithmic entities, it offers an insight into the digitization and further unmanned automaton of war. It does so through a comparative historical framework reaching back to the quantification techniques harnessed during the British Mandate for Iraq (1918-1932) in order to explicate the parallels and complicated the diversions between the numerical logics that have driven both military state-building enterprises.