Postmodern War: The New Politics of Conflict - Rilegato

Gray, Chris Hables

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ISBN 10: 1572301600 ISBN 13: 9781572301603

Casa editrice: Guilford Pubn, 1997

Riassunto

From Operation Desert Storm to the conflict in Bosnia, computerization and other scientific advances have brought about a revolution in warfare. This book shows how our high-tech age has spawned both increasingly powerful weapons and a rhetoric that disguises their apocalyptic potential in catch phrases like "smart weapons," "cyberwar," and "bloodless combat." A skillful combination of trenchant cultural study(/WRITERS: CHANGE CULTURAL STUDY TO "SOCIAL ANALYSIS" IN SOME SITUATIONS), provocative illustrations, and engrossing military, technical, and historical analysis, Postmodern War sheds new light on the ways we conceptualize and conduct war today.

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L'autore:

Chris Hables Gray is a 10th generation Californian who received his BA from Stanford University and his Ph.D. from the History of Consciousness Board at the University of California at Santa Cruz (UCSC) in 1991. Since then he has been a fellow at the Oregon State University (OSU) Center for the Humanities, a NASA History Fellow, and an Eisenhower Fellow at Masaryk University in the Czech Republic. His teaching experience includes lecturing at UCSC, guest professorships at OSU and Masaryk, and two years with Goddard College. Currently he is an associate professor of Cultural Studies of Science and Technology and of Computer Science at the University of Great Falls, Great Falls, Montana where he lives with his wife Jane Lovett Wilson and their two sons, Corey and Zachary.

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Book by Gray PhD Chris Hables

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• Editore: Guilford Pubn
• Data di pubblicazione: 1997
• ISBN 10: 1572301600
• ISBN 13: 9781572301603
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 314