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Computers are at the heart of war today: the U.S. Navy relies on Palm Pilots as much as fighter pilots. American cybersaboteurs unleashed computer viruses against Slobodon Milosevic in Yugoslavia. Even Marxist guerrillas in Colombia reported that the computers they used to track kidnappings were Y2K compliant. A visionary and disarming overview of cyberwar in the 21st Century, Peace, War, and Computers looks beyond the gadgets of techno-warfare and the early predictions of a purely 'cyberspace' war to reveal how electronic culture has changed the way we wage war and peace. Drawing on informatics and chaos theory, Chris Hables Gray shows that, despite our Star Wars fantasies, postmodern war is a complex system that cannot be controlled or predicted from outside. Unmanned aircraft - soon to be followed by remote-control naval fleets-may appear to make warfare more sterile, less bloody. But as the fighting in Somalia showed, the highest technology can't win the simplest conflict.

Table of Contents:
Part I The Situation; Chapter 1 The New Normal Isn't; Chapter 2 Real War and Postmodern Illusions; Chapter 3 Globalization: Who Will Rule The World?; Chapter 4 The Politics of Technologies/The Technologies of Politics; Part II The Responses; Chapter 5 The Future Present of Peace and Resistance to War; Chapter 6 Art as Politics by Other Means; Chapter 7 The Possibilities of Citizenship; Chapter 8 Reasons for Hope;

About the Author :
Chris Hables Gray is also author of Postmodern War and Cyborg Citizen and editor of The Cyborg Handbook. He is Professor of Cultural Studies of Science and Technology at Godard College and is Professor, Core Faculty, Graduate College, for The Union Institute and University. He is a former Eisenhower, NASA, and Smithsonian Fellow and is an active member of Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility.

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"'Chris Hables Gray takes us to the edge, looks into the abyss, and where others wish us only to see fear, hatred, and a permanent state of war, he finds hope. Going beyond pure critique, Gray brilliantly dissects the morbidity of the TerrorWars and concisely maps out a netcentric course of action for a viable peace.' ." -- James Der Derian, author of Virtuous War and producer of After 9/11


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780415928854
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
  • Publisher Imprint: Routledge
  • Height: 229 mm
  • No of Pages: 240
  • Width: 152 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0415928850
  • Publisher Date: 26 Dec 2004
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Weight: 498 gr


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