UID:
almafu_9961152797602883
Format:
1 online resource (369 p.) :
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illustrations
Edition:
2nd ed.
ISBN:
1-135-98093-4
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1-281-97733-0
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9786611977337
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0-203-88153-2
Content:
Virtuous War is the first book to map the emergence and judge the consequences of a new military-industrial-media-entertainment network. James Der Derian takes the reader from a family history of war and genocide to new virtual battlespaces in the Mojave Desert, Silicon Valley, Hollywood and American universities. He tracks the convergence of cyborg technologies, video games, media spectacles, war movies, and do-good ideologies that produced a chimera of high-tech, low-risk ‘virtuous wars’.In this newly updated edition, he reveals how a misguided faith in virtuous war to right the wrongs of the world instead paved the way for a flawed response to 9/11 and a disastrous war in Iraq. Blinded by virtue, emboldened by technological superiority, seized by a mimetic terror, the US blundered from one foreign fiasco to the next.Taking the long view as well as getting up close to the war machine, Virtuous War provides a compelling alternative to the partisan politics, instant analysis and technical fixes that currently bedevil US national security policy.
Note:
Description based upon print version of record.
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Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Photographs; Acronyms; Acknowledgments for the first edition; Acknowledgments for the second edition; Preface to the new edition; The virtuous; Prologue; 1 The tank and the tortoise; 2 Between wars; 3 Global swarming and the Bosnia question; 4 The simulation triangle; 5 The virtual enemy; 6 Virtuous war comes home; 7 Virtuous war goes to Hollywood; 8 Kosovo and the virtuous thereafter; 9 A virtual theory of the global event; 10 After 9/11; 11 Global media in an Age of Infoterror; 12 The desert of the real and the simulacra of war; Notes; Index
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-415-77239-7
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-415-77238-9
Language:
English
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