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Proto-Algorithmic War: How the Iraq War Became a Laboratory for Algorithmic Logics

Proto-Algorithmic War: How the Iraq War Became a Laboratory for Algorithmic Logics

Hristova, Stefka

Hardcover

Series: Social and Cultural Studies of Robots and AI

General ComputersGeneral SociologyHistory & Philosophy of Science

ISBN10: 3031042182
ISBN13: 9783031042188
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: Jul 17 2022
Pages: 180
Weight: 0.85
Height: 0.50 Width: 5.83 Depth: 8.27
Language: English

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.

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