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Warrior Geeks: How 21st Century Technology is Changing the Way We Fight and Think About War(Columbia/Hurst)

Warrior Geeks: How 21st Century Technology is Changing the Way We Fight and Think About War(Columbia/Hurst)


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Warrior Geeks examines how technology is transforming the way we think about and fight war, focusing on three major changes driving the process: the technologies aiming to incorporate soldiers into a cybernetic system through which the military can read their thoughts and mold them accordingly; the anticipated coexistence of men and robots on the battlefields of tomorrow; and the extent to which armies may one day be able to reengineer warriors through pharmacological manipulation. Harking back to the Greeks and Aristotle's original conception of virtue ethics and the proper contours of war, Christopher Coker believes modern humans are on the verge of losing touch with their humanity. War can only be rendered more humane if we recall the wisdom of our ancestors, he claims. Unfortunately, modern society is about to subcontract its ethical self to machines. In revaluing technology, we devalue our humanity, or the posthuman condition, and by changing our functional and performative relationship to technology, we irrevocably alter our subjectivity and the existential dimensions of war.

About the Author :
Christopher Coker is professor of international relations at the London School of Economics and author of Barbarous Philosophers: Reflections on the Nature of War From Heraclitus to Heisenberg.

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The age of martial robotics is upon us and no one has captured the impending revolution in warfare with its accompanying moral dilemmas more incisively or eloquently than Christopher Coker. Warrior Geeks, his latest work on the subject of posthuman warfare, brilliantly exposes the divide between traditional Western military ethos and the inevitable rise of machine-based combat. An exceptional book. -- Everett Dolman, USAF School of Advanced Air and Space Studies There are few writers who can do what Christopher Coker has accomplished in Warrior Geeks, which takes the reader on a journey connecting everything from Socrates to Oliver Stone movies to the latest in warfare and digital technologies. His work is always substantive, and sometimes even lyrical. -- Peter Singer, Brookings Institution, and author of Wired for War: The Robotics Revolution and Conflict in the Twenty-First Century


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780231704083
  • Publisher: Columbia University Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press
  • Height: 221 mm
  • Series Title: Columbia/Hurst
  • Weight: 454 gr
  • ISBN-10: 0231704089
  • Publisher Date: 05 Mar 2013
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Sub Title: How 21st Century Technology is Changing the Way We Fight and Think About War
  • Width: 140 mm


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