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Radical War: Data, Attention and Control in the Twenty-First Century

by Matthew Ford

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How digital systems reshape the experience and control of war

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How digital systems reshape the experience and control of war

Radical War examines conflict in an environment where phones, apps, archives, algorithms, and networked media are entwined with political violence. It traces how digitally mediated attention can blur the lines between civilian and soldier, observer and participant, and media platform and weapon. The book connects these shifts to the ways war is justified, organized, fought, lived through, remembered, and forgotten. Framed through an interdisciplinary approach, it considers the relationship between data, attention, and control, while mapping the human and technological dependencies involved in contemporary conflict.

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  • Readers interested in military science and the digital transformation of conflict
  • Students of technology, media, politics, and security studies
  • Those examining data, algorithms, and political violence

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Digital warfareData and controlAttention and mediaCivilian participationPolitical violence

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Book overview

This book examines the digital explosion that has ripped across the battlefield, weaponizing our attention and making everyone a participant in wars without end.

"Smart" devices, apps, archives and algorithms remove the bystander from war, collapsing the distinctions between audience and actor, soldier and civilian, media and weapon. This has ruptured our capacity to make sense of war. Now we are all either victims or perpetrators.

In Radical War, Ford and Hoskins reveal how contemporary war is legitimized, planned, fought, experienced, remembered and forgotten in a continuous and connected way, through digitally saturated fields of perception.

Plotting the emerging relationship between data, attention and the power to control war, the authors chart the complex digital and human interdependencies that sustain political violence today. Through a unique, interdisciplinary lens, they map our disjointed experiences of conflict and illuminate this dystopian new ecology of war.
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