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Proto-Algorithmic War : How the Iraq War became a laboratory for algorithmic logics / by Stefka Hristova
(Social and Cultural Studies of Robots and AI. ISSN:25238531)

Publisher	(Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan)
Year	2022
Edition	1st ed. 2022.
Authors	*Hristova, Stefka author SpringerLink (Online service)

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Links to the text	Library Off-campus access			OB00188829		Springer Social Sciences eBooks (電子ブック)	9783031042195

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Material Type	E-Book
Media type	機械可読データファイル
Size	XIII, 180 p. 4 illus : online resource
Notes	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 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 Hristova’s 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 HTTP:URL=https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-04219-5
Subjects	LCSH:Science—Social aspects LCSH:Science—Philosophy LCSH:Artificial intelligence LCSH:Robotics LCSH:Human geography FREE:Science and Technology Studies FREE:Philosophy of Science FREE:Artificial Intelligence FREE:Robotics FREE:Human Geography
Classification	LCC:Q175.4-.55 DC23:303.483
ID	8000087998
ISBN	9783031042195