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Book SynopsisTrade Review "On Posthuman War offers a compelling new account of the systemic militarization of human experience. Describing the weaponization of thought that has turned the brain itself into a combat zone, Mike Hill shows that the most basic epistemological and ontological questions can now only be posed from within the war machine."—Jan Mieszkowski, author of Watching War
"As Mike Hill demonstrates, war has become woven into the fabric of all our lives through the woof and warp of data and virtuality, and his discussion reaches deeply into the ontological import of this process. This is a book for our times, at once compelling and chilling, lively and optimistic."—Geoffrey C. Bowker, University of California, Irvine
"Flowing between philosophy, communication methods and the politics of diversity and race, the book bridges fields and informatively navigates the politics of war."—International Journal of Communication
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments
Abbreviations
Preface: Supping with the Devil Dogs
Introduction: Number Rules
The Terrorist Recognition Handbook
Cybernetics and Netcentric War
The Lords of Things as They Are
Realism and Posthuman War
System-of-Systems
Summary of Remaining Chapters
1. War Demography
The Revolution in Military Affairs
U.S. Census Politics and the Coming White Minority
The Graveyard of the Human Race
Race War
The Algorithmic Unconscious
2. War Anthropology
The Human Terrain System Program
Data as Physical Transmission
National Character Study in World War II
Counterinsurgency Theory and Vietnam
Quantum Systems and Asymmetrical War
White Afghans
3. War Neuroscience
The Functional Combatant
Living Matter
Cartography and Virtual Reality
The Human Brain as Image Generator
Opto-Electronics
Virtuality and War
White Matter
Notes
Index
