Proto-algorithmic war : how the Iraq Qar became a laboratory for algorithmic logics / Stefka Hristova.
Hristova, Stefka, 1977- author.
2022
DS79.767.M38
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Title Proto-algorithmic war : how the Iraq Qar became a laboratory for algorithmic logics / Stefka Hristova.
Author Hristova, Stefka, 1977- author.
ISBN 9783031042195 (electronic bk.)
3031042190 (electronic bk.)
9783031042188
3031042182
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-04219-5
Published Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, 2022.
Language English
Description 1 online resource : illustrations (black and white).
Other Standard Identifiers 10.1007/978-3-031-04219-5 doi
Call Number DS79.767.M38
Dewey Decimal Classification 956.70443
Summary During the Iraq War, American soldiers were sent to both fight an enemy and to recover a "failed state" in pixelated camouflage uniforms, accompanied by robots, and armed with satellite maps and biometric hand-held scanners. The Iraq War, however, was no digital game: massive-scale physical death and destruction counter the vision of a clean replayable war. The military policy of the United States, and not the actual experience of war, has been rooted in the logic of digital, and nascent algorithmic technology. This logic attempted to reduce culture, society, as well as the physical body and environment into visual data that lacks cultural and historical context. This book details the emergence of a nascent algorithmic war culture in the context of the Iraq War (2003-2010) in relation to the data-driven early 20th century British Mandate for Iraq. Through a series of five inquiries into the ways in which the Iraq War attempted to and often failed to see population and territory as digital and further proto-algorithmic entities, it offers an insight into the digitization and further unmanned automaton of war. It does so through a comparative historical framework reaching back to the quantification techniques harnessed during the British Mandate for Iraq (1918-1932) in order to explicate the parallels and complicated the diversions between the numerical logics that have driven both military state-building enterprises. Stefka Hristovas research examines algorithmic and digital media cultures. She studies the intersection of technology and culture in relation the context of photography, surveillance, and social movements.
Note Includes index.
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Series Social and cultural studies of robots and AI.
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Chapter 1: Algorithmic Logics and War
Chapter 2: Data Lands/Data Subjects
Chapter 3: Taxonomies Of Enmity
Chapter 4: Data Replay
Chapter 5: Veridiction Training
Chapter 6: Automation, Trust, Responsibility
Chapter 7: Conclusion: Beyond War.

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