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.

List of contents

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

About the author

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

Summary

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

Product details

• Authors: Dr Elke Schwarz, Elke Schwarz
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.07.2018
• EAN: 9781526114822
• ISBN: 978-1-5261-1482-2
• No. of pages: 240
• Subjects: Guides > Motor vehicles, aircraft, ships, space travel > Military vehicles, aircraft, ships; Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Technology > Miscellaneous; 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