- Gebundene Ausgabe: 272 Seiten
- Verlag: Westview Press; Auflage: illustrated edition (Juni 2001)
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-10: 0813397944
- ISBN-13: 978-0813397948
- Größe und/oder Gewicht: 23,6 x 16 x 2,2 cm
- Amazon Bestseller-Rang: Nr. 1.094.858 in Englische Bücher (Siehe Top 100 in Englische Bücher)
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Virtuous War is a road trip into the cyborg heart of the military-industrial-media-entertainment network, taking the reader at warp speed from the Armys Advanced Warfighting Experiment in the Mojave Desert, to the Marines Urban Warrior occupation of the San Francisco Bay area, to the new alliance between Hollywood, Silicon Valley, and the armed forces, and back again, to the authors own memories of war and genocide. . In the Mojave Desert, off the shores of San Francisco Bay, in the hills of southern Germany, next door to Disneyworld and in the heart of Hollywood, the United States armed forces are preparing for the next war. They are fought by the military in the same manner as they are viewed by citizens, on real-time networks and by live-feed videos, on the PC and the TV, actually and virtually. Enabled by smart technologies yet constrained by political and humanitarian imperatives, a new form of high-tech, low-risk warfare is emerging, Virtuous War . In Virtuous War , James Der Derian takes the reader on a roadtrip through the future of war, where cyborg combat technologies, video games, TV news stories, Army training exercises, and Hollywood movies all blur and converge in a new military-industrial-media-entertainment network. He shows us a world in which CNN and Disney are as much a part of the battlefield as Lockheed Martin and the Pentagon, where Marine fire-teams train with the video game Doom, and entertainment executives design Army wargames. All the while Der Derian offers tremendous insight on the questions that arise as the tail of technology wags the dog of war: Will killing become easier? Will peace become harder? Will war lose its place as the ultimate reality-check of international politics? The result is the first book to offer a virtual theory for the military strategies, philosophical questions, ethical issues, and political controversies surrounding the future of war and peace.
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Virtuous War is a road trip into the cyborg heart of the military-industrial-media-entertainment network, taking the reader at warp speed from the Armys Advanced Warfighting Experiment in the Mojave Desert, to the Marines Urban Warrior occupation of the San Francisco Bay area, to the new alliance between Hollywood, Silicon Valley, and the armed forces, and back again, to the authors own memories of war and genocide. . In the Mojave Desert, off the shores of San Francisco Bay, in the hills of southern Germany, next door to Disneyworld and in the heart of Hollywood, the United States armed forces are preparing for the next war. They are fought by the military in the same manner as they are viewed by citizens, on real-time networks and by live-feed videos, on the PC and the TV, actually and virtually. Enabled by smart technologies yet constrained by political and humanitarian imperatives, a new form of high-tech, low-risk warfare is emerging, Virtuous War .In Virtuous War , James Der Derian takes the reader on a roadtrip through the future of war, where cyborg combat technologies, video games, TV news stories, Army training exercises, and Hollywood movies all blur and converge in a new military-industrial-media-entertainment network. He shows us a world in which CNN and Disney are as much a part of the battlefield as Lockheed Martin and the Pentagon, where Marine fire-teams train with the video game Doom, and entertainment executives design Army wargames. All the while Der Derian offers tremendous insight on the questions that arise as the tail of technology wags the dog of war: Will killing become easier? Will peace become harder? Will war lose its place as the ultimate reality-check of international politics? The result is the first book to offer a virtual theory for the military strategies, philosophical questions, ethical issues, and political controversies surrounding the future of war and peace.
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a pomo book that reads like Kitchen Confidential????
9. November 2001
Format:Gebundene Ausgabe
Few people have been able to translate the ideas of Virilio, Deleuze and Baudrillard into the realm of International Relations with much success. Pomo IR has often come across as self-indulgent and willfully obscure - a clique that writes for the converted...
But Der Derian - who has flirted with rather 'esoteric' writing styles in the past - has produced a book that steps outside the pomo area and gets out the safe confines of the campus for a trip around the sites where virtual warfare is being established.
The book is a pleasure to read (!) and comes across like Anthony Bourdain (author of Kitchen Confidential) writing about Virilio and virtuality - it is personal, sometimes darkly humourous, fascinating and warm...unusual in the cold, neutral world of IR theory (critical or 'mainstream').
The book is the clearest statement of Der Derian's project and clarified what I had always suspected - that he is concerned with developing a 'sociology of morality' (a global sociology that looks at the social production of indifference). In this sense, it is a useful continuation of the project that Zygmunt Bauman initiated in Modernity and the Holocaust and deserves to be read by people outside the IR camp...
Of course, many will argue that he fails to tackle the dynamics of virtual or postmodern capitalism (and Marx and the Marxist tradition is not really considered in his final musings on theory). But the book develops a powerful approach to the dangers of virtual death that can be appreciated by people coming from different angles...
This book is a great read...and it is great to see a critical intellectual in IR writing for a wider audience. I still would like more on what it mean would to accept Virilio's critique of dromocratic society: how would Der Derian and Virilio imagine alternative to virtual life and death....
But Der Derian - who has flirted with rather 'esoteric' writing styles in the past - has produced a book that steps outside the pomo area and gets out the safe confines of the campus for a trip around the sites where virtual warfare is being established.
The book is a pleasure to read (!) and comes across like Anthony Bourdain (author of Kitchen Confidential) writing about Virilio and virtuality - it is personal, sometimes darkly humourous, fascinating and warm...unusual in the cold, neutral world of IR theory (critical or 'mainstream').
The book is the clearest statement of Der Derian's project and clarified what I had always suspected - that he is concerned with developing a 'sociology of morality' (a global sociology that looks at the social production of indifference). In this sense, it is a useful continuation of the project that Zygmunt Bauman initiated in Modernity and the Holocaust and deserves to be read by people outside the IR camp...
Of course, many will argue that he fails to tackle the dynamics of virtual or postmodern capitalism (and Marx and the Marxist tradition is not really considered in his final musings on theory). But the book develops a powerful approach to the dangers of virtual death that can be appreciated by people coming from different angles...
This book is a great read...and it is great to see a critical intellectual in IR writing for a wider audience. I still would like more on what it mean would to accept Virilio's critique of dromocratic society: how would Der Derian and Virilio imagine alternative to virtual life and death....
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