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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Mike HillPublisher: University of Minnesota Press Imprint: University of Minnesota Press Dimensions: Width: 14.00cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 21.60cm ISBN: 9780816660896ISBN 10: 0816660891 Pages: 248 Publication Date: 16 August 2022 Audience: General/trade , Professional and scholarly , General , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Temporarily unavailable ![]() The supplier advises that this item is temporarily unavailable. It will be ordered for you and placed on backorder. Once it does come back in stock, we will ship it out to you. Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Abbreviations Preface: Supping with the Devil Dogs Introduction: Number Rules The Terrorist Recognition Handbook Cybernetics and Netcentric War The Lords of Things as They Are Realism and Posthuman War System-of-Systems Summary of Remaining Chapters 1. War Demography The Revolution in Military Affairs U.S. Census Politics and the Coming White Minority The Graveyard of the Human Race Race War The Algorithmic Unconscious 2. War Anthropology The Human Terrain System Program Data as Physical Transmission National Character Study in World War II Counterinsurgency Theory and Vietnam Quantum Systems and Asymmetrical War White Afghans 3. War Neuroscience The Functional Combatant Living Matter Cartography and Virtual Reality The Human Brain as Image Generator Opto-Electronics Virtuality and War White Matter Notes IndexReviewsOn Posthuman War offers a compelling new account of the systemic militarization of human experience. Describing the weaponization of thought that has turned the brain itself into a combat zone, Mike Hill shows that the most basic epistemological and ontological questions can now only be posed from within the war machine. -Jan Mieszkowski, author of Watching War As Mike Hill demonstrates, war has become woven into the fabric of all our lives through the woof and warp of data and virtuality, and his discussion reaches deeply into the ontological import of this process. This is a book for our times, at once compelling and chilling, lively and optimistic. -Geoffrey C. Bowker, University of California, Irvine """On Posthuman War offers a compelling new account of the systemic militarization of human experience. Describing the weaponization of thought that has turned the brain itself into a combat zone, Mike Hill shows that the most basic epistemological and ontological questions can now only be posed from within the war machine.""—Jan Mieszkowski, author of Watching War ""As Mike Hill demonstrates, war has become woven into the fabric of all our lives through the woof and warp of data and virtuality, and his discussion reaches deeply into the ontological import of this process. This is a book for our times, at once compelling and chilling, lively and optimistic.""—Geoffrey C. Bowker, University of California, Irvine ""Flowing between philosophy, communication methods and the politics of diversity and race, the book bridges fields and informatively navigates the politics of war.""—International Journal of Communication " """On Posthuman War offers a compelling new account of the systemic militarization of human experience. Describing the weaponization of thought that has turned the brain itself into a combat zone, Mike Hill shows that the most basic epistemological and ontological questions can now only be posed from within the war machine.""—Jan Mieszkowski, author of Watching War ""As Mike Hill demonstrates, war has become woven into the fabric of all our lives through the woof and warp of data and virtuality, and his discussion reaches deeply into the ontological import of this process. This is a book for our times, at once compelling and chilling, lively and optimistic.""—Geoffrey C. Bowker, University of California, Irvine" Author InformationMike Hill is professor of English at the University at Albany, State University of New York. He is author of After Whiteness: Unmaking an American Majority and coauthor of The Other Adam Smith. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |