num_pages: 259
description: Tracing wars expansion beyond the battlefield to the concept of the human being itself As military and other forms of political violence become the planetary norm On Posthuman War traces the expansion of war beyond traditional theaters of battle. Drawing on counterinsurgency field manuals tactical manifestos data-driven military theory and asymmetrical-war archives Mike Hill delineates new Areas of Operation within a concept of the human being as not only a social and biological entity but also a technical one. Delving into three human-focused disciplines newly turned against humanity On Posthuman War reveals how demography anthropology and neuroscience have intertwined since 9/11 amid the Revolution in Military Affairs. Beginning with the authors personal experience training with U.S. Marine recruits at Parris Island Hill gleans insights from realist philosophy the new materialism and computational theory to show how the human being per se has been reconstituted from neutral citizen to unwitting combatant. As evident in the call for bullets beans and data whatever can be parted out counted and reassembled can become war materiel. Hill shows how visible and invisible wars within identity community and cognition shift public-sphere activities like racial identification group organization and even thought itself in the direction of war. This shift has weaponized social activities against the very notion of society. On Posthuman War delivers insights on the latest war technologies strategies and tactics while engaging in questions poised to overturn the foundations of modern political thought.
language: English
title: On Posthuman War: Computation and Military Violence
publisher: University of Minnesota Press