Virtuous War: Mapping the Military-Industrial-Media-Entertainment Network

ISBN-13: 9780415772389 / Angielski / Twarda / 2008 / 330 str.

James Der Derian

Opis

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.

Spis treści

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 for the Global Accident  10. After 9/11  11. The Age of Info-Terror  12. Virtuous War and the Desert of the Real 

O autorze

James Der Derian is Research Professor of International Studies at Brown University, where he directs the Innovating GlobalSecurity and Global Media Project at the Watson Institute for International Studies. He has produced numerous books, articles, and documentaries on diplomacy, war, media, and technology, including, most recently, Critical Practices in International Theory (Routledge, 2008)