Killer Apps: War, Media, Machine

Author:   Jeremy Packer ,  Joshua Reeves
Publisher:   Duke University Press
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9781478005872


Pages:   280
Publication Date:   28 February 2020
Format:   Hardback
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In Killer Apps Jeremy Packer and Joshua Reeves provide a detailed account of the rise of automation in warfare, showing how media systems are central to building weapons systems with artificial intelligence in order to more efficiently select and eliminate military targets. Drawing on the insights of a wide range of political and media theorists, Packer and Reeves develop a new theory for understanding how the intersection of media and military strategy drives today's AI arms race. They address the use of media to search for enemies in their analyses of the history of automated radar systems, the search for extraterrestrial life, and the development of military climate science, which treats the changing earth as an enemy. As the authors demonstrate, contemporary military strategy demands perfect communication in an evolving battlespace that is increasingly inhospitable to human frailties, necessitating humans' replacement by advanced robotics, machine intelligence, and media systems.

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Author:   Jeremy Packer ,  Joshua Reeves
Publisher:   Duke University Press
Imprint:   Duke University Press
Weight:   0.544kg
ISBN:  

9781478005872


ISBN 10:   1478005874
Pages:   280
Publication Date:   28 February 2020
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In stock   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgments  vii Preface to an Inauthentic Document  ix Introduction. Event Matrix (DoD)  1 1. Identification Friend or Foe (DoD)  29 2. Centralized Control/Decentralized Execution (DoD)  48 3. Hostile Environment  (DoD)  61 4. In Extremis (DoD)  89 5. Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (DoD)  109 6. Autonomous Operation (DoD)  124 7. Vital Ground (DoD)  139 8. Escalation (DoD)  159 9. Unidentified Flying Objects (USAF)  175 Conclusion. Armistice (DoD)  198 Notes  217 References  235 Index  261

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In this crucial new book, Jeremy Packer and Joshua Reeves offer a provocative, media-centric analysis of automated killing machines. Engaging with an armada of flying sensors, robotic submarines, and AI weapons already in use, they show that big data, computer vision, and super intelligence emerge not just to order and organize the battlefield, but to produce new enemies. Clever and incisive, the book provides a haunting look at warfare of the near future. -- Lisa Parks, coeditor of * Life in the Age of Drone Warfare * This is an excellent book: well designed, thoroughly engaging, informative and, unfortunately, extremely topical and timely. The authors have gone to great lengths to make Killer Apps relentlessly up to date, providing readers with the latest in weapons developments, including AI drones and 'swarmanoid' robotics. With its impressive grounding in theory and hardware, it will become the go-to book for critical understandings of the intersection of warfare, media, and enmity. -- Geoffrey Winthrop-Young, author of * Kittler and the Media * By focusing first and foremost on the epistemological function of military media, Packer and Reeves have produced a range of rigorous and highly engaging analyses, with broad applicability across a range of possible fields of research. -- Malcolm Ogden * Critical Studies in Media Communication * The book is a tour de force regarding the rise of automation in warfare. I recommend Killer Apps to anyone interested in media technology studies as well as political science and international security studies. -- Jose de Arimateia da Cruz * International Social Science Review *


By focusing first and foremost on the epistemological function of military media, Packer and Reeves have produced a range of rigorous and highly engaging analyses, with broad applicability across a range of possible fields of research. -- Malcolm Ogden * Critical Studies in Media Communication * This is an excellent book: well designed, thoroughly engaging, informative and, unfortunately, extremely topical and timely. The authors have gone to great lengths to make Killer Apps relentlessly up to date, providing readers with the latest in weapons developments, including AI drones and 'swarmanoid' robotics. With its impressive grounding in theory and hardware, it will become the go-to book for critical understandings of the intersection of warfare, media, and enmity. -- Geoffrey Winthrop-Young, author of * Kittler and the Media * In this crucial new book, Jeremy Packer and Joshua Reeves offer a provocative, media-centric analysis of automated killing machines. Engaging with an armada of flying sensors, robotic submarines, and AI weapons already in use, they show that big data, computer vision, and super intelligence emerge not just to order and organize the battlefield, but to produce new enemies. Clever and incisive, the book provides a haunting look at warfare of the near future. -- Lisa Parks, coeditor of * Life in the Age of Drone Warfare *


In this crucial new book, Jeremy Packer and Joshua Reeves offer a provocative, media-centric analysis of automated killing machines. Engaging with an armada of flying sensors, robotic submarines, and AI weapons already in use, they show that big data, computer vision, and super intelligence emerge not just to order and organize the battlefield, but to produce new enemies. Clever and incisive, the book provides a haunting look at warfare of the near future. --Lisa Parks, coeditor of Life in the Age of Drone Warfare This is an excellent book: well designed, thoroughly engaging, informative and, unfortunately, extremely topical and timely. The authors have gone to great lengths to make Killer Apps relentlessly up to date, providing readers with the latest in weapons developments, including AI drones and 'swarmanoid' robotics. With its impressive grounding in theory and hardware, it will become the go-to book for critical understandings of the intersection of warfare, media, and enmity. --Geoffrey Winthrop-Young, author of Kittler and the Media


"“In this crucial new book, Jeremy Packer and Joshua Reeves offer a provocative, media-centric analysis of automated killing machines. Engaging with an armada of flying sensors, robotic submarines, and AI weapons already in use, they show that big data, computer vision, and super intelligence emerge not just to order and organize the battlefield, but to produce new enemies. Clever and incisive, the book provides a haunting look at warfare of the near future.” -- Lisa Parks, coeditor of * Life in the Age of Drone Warfare * “This is an excellent book: well designed, thoroughly engaging, informative and, unfortunately, extremely topical and timely. The authors have gone to great lengths to make Killer Apps relentlessly up to date, providing readers with the latest in weapons developments, including AI drones and ‘swarmanoid’ robotics. With its impressive grounding in theory and hardware, it will become the go-to book for critical understandings of the intersection of warfare, media, and enmity.” -- Geoffrey Winthrop-Young, author of * Kittler and the Media * “By focusing first and foremost on the epistemological function of military media, Packer and Reeves have produced a range of rigorous and highly engaging analyses, with broad applicability across a range of possible fields of research.” -- Malcolm Ogden * Critical Studies in Media Communication * ""The book is a tour de force regarding the rise of automation in warfare. I recommend Killer Apps to anyone interested in media technology studies as well as political science and international security studies."" -- José de Arimatéia da Cruz * International Social Science Review * ""Through a careful presentation of technological developments in the domain of military affairs, coupled with a rigorous historical analysis, an effective application of media theory, and a vast array of case studies, Jeremy Packer and Joshua Reeves convincingly present an account of how we arrived where we are today in a world on the cusp of embracing new forms of executing war that will be largely dependent on AI."" -- Joseph Michael Gratale * European Journal of American Studies * “For the national security, intelligence, and defense communities, Killer Apps presents both a valuable scholarly resource and a deeply ambiguous set of questions. . . . [Packer and Reeves] force readers to transcend the humanist epistemological orientation in order to understand what the machine age has truly ushered in.” -- Zac Rogers * Parameters *"


In this crucial new book, Jeremy Packer and Joshua Reeves offer a provocative, media-centric analysis of automated killing machines. Engaging with an armada of flying sensors, robotic submarines, and AI weapons already in use, they show that big data, computer vision, and super intelligence emerge not just to order and organize the battlefield, but to produce new enemies. Clever and incisive, the book provides a haunting look at warfare of the near future. -- Lisa Parks, coeditor of * Life in the Age of Drone Warfare * This is an excellent book: well designed, thoroughly engaging, informative and, unfortunately, extremely topical and timely. The authors have gone to great lengths to make Killer Apps relentlessly up to date, providing readers with the latest in weapons developments, including AI drones and 'swarmanoid' robotics. With its impressive grounding in theory and hardware, it will become the go-to book for critical understandings of the intersection of warfare, media, and enmity. -- Geoffrey Winthrop-Young, author of * Kittler and the Media * By focusing first and foremost on the epistemological function of military media, Packer and Reeves have produced a range of rigorous and highly engaging analyses, with broad applicability across a range of possible fields of research. -- Malcolm Ogden * Critical Studies in Media Communication * The book is a tour de force regarding the rise of automation in warfare. I recommend Killer Apps to anyone interested in media technology studies as well as political science and international security studies. -- Jose de Arimateia da Cruz * International Social Science Review * Through a careful presentation of technological developments in the domain of military affairs, coupled with a rigorous historical analysis, an effective application of media theory, and a vast array of case studies, Jeremy Packer and Joshua Reeves convincingly present an account of how we arrived where we are today in a world on the cusp of embracing new forms of executing war that will be largely dependent on AI. -- Joseph Michael Gratale * European Journal of American Studies *


Author Information

Jeremy Packer is Associate Professor in the Institute for Communication, Culture, Information, and Technology at the University of Toronto. Joshua Reeves is an Associate Professor in the School of Communication and Media at Oregon State University.

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