Name: War X: Human Extensions in Battlespace (en Inglés)
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Author: Blackmore, Tim
ISBN: 9781442613881

portada War X: Human Extensions in Battlespace (en Inglés)

War X: Human Extensions in Battlespace (en Inglés)

Formato

Libro Físico

Autor

Tim Blackmore

Editorial

University of Toronto Press

Año

2011

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

258

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

Dimensiones

21.1x13.7x2.5 cm

Peso

0.27 kg.

ISBN

1442613882

ISBN13

9781442613881

Categorías

Ingeniería militar

War X: Human Extensions in Battlespace (en Inglés)

Tim Blackmore (Autor) · University of Toronto Press · Tapa Blanda

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Reseña del libro "War X: Human Extensions in Battlespace (en Inglés)"

Are we afraid of war? Has the advancement of military technology created a mindset of invincibility on the battlefield? In War X, Tim Blackmore argues that the technology of warfare has essentially erased the human body from battlespace. The result is a physical and psychological distance between humanity and bloodshed. As the machinery of war develops, and as advances are made in the biological sciences, war becomes increasingly palatable - attractive, even - resulting in a sanitized murder culture in which war is anticipated and viewed with little anxiety.Blackmore makes connections between human beings in battle and the very different world of weapons manufacturers, finding between the two a romance of war technology. Using popular science fiction literature and film, personal war narratives, biographies, and military imagery, he explores the human body in war, the ways in which soldiers imagine themselves superhuman - posthuman - protected by the armour of muscles and steel, tanks and helicopters, robotics and remote control.War X is an explosive introduction to the discussion of modern warfare and a timely consideration of industrial warfare as it is unfolding even now in Iraq and Afghanistan, and as it might be in the future, with new weapon development. It is also a deliberation on the startling world of new weapon development, and the indescribable future of war that beckons.