Death Machines - The Ethics of Violent Technologies

Death Machines offers a critical reconsideration of ethical theories and political justifications for technologised practices of violence in contemporary conflicts.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: The conditioned human
1. Biopolitics and the technological subject
2. Biopolitical technologies in Arendt and Foucault
3. Anti-political (post)modernity
4. Procedural violence
5. Ethics as technics
6. All hail our robot overlords
7. Prescription drones
Conclusion: For an ethics beyond technics
Index

Über den Autor / die Autorin

Elke Schwarz is Lecturer in Political Theory at Queen Mary University London

Zusammenfassung

Death Machines offers a critical reconsideration of ethical theories and political justifications for technologised practices of violence in contemporary conflicts. -- .

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Dr Elke Schwarz, Elke Schwarz
• Verlag: Manchester University Press
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 31.07.2018
• EAN: 9781526114822
• ISBN: 978-1-5261-1482-2
• Seiten: 240
• Themen: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Philosophie > Allgemeines, Lexika; Naturwissenschaften, Medizin, Informatik, Technik > Technik > Sonstiges; Ratgeber > Fahrzeuge, Flugzeuge, Schiffe, Raumfahrt > Militärfahrzeuge, -flugzeuge, -schiffe; TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / General, HISTORY / Military / General, PHILOSOPHY / Ethics & Moral Philosophy, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Comparative Politics, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Military Science, International Relations, HISTORY / Military / Biological & Chemical Warfare, Warfare & defence, Ethics & moral philosophy, Comparative Politics, Ethics and moral philosophy, Warfare and defence, Impact of science & technology on society, Impact of science and technology on society