Death Machines - The Ethics of Violent Technologies

Informationen zum Autor Elke Schwarz is Lecturer in Political Theory at Queen Mary University of London Klappentext Death Machines offers a critical reconsideration of ethical theories and political justifications for technologised practices of violence in contemporary conflicts. Zusammenfassung Death Machines offers a critical reconsideration of ethical theories and political justifications for technologised practices of violence in contemporary conflicts. -- . Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: The conditioned human1. Biopolitics and the technological subject2. Biopolitical technologies in Arendt and Foucault3. Anti-political (post)modernity 4. Procedural violence5. Ethics as technics6. All hail our robot overlords7. Prescription dronesConclusion: For an ethics beyond technics Index

Product details

• Authors: Schwarz Elke Elke, Elke Schwarz
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.10.2019
• EAN: 9781526114846
• ISBN: 978-1-5261-1484-6
• No. of pages: 240
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Technology > Miscellaneous; Non-fiction book > History > 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, Technology: general issues, Warfare & defence, Ethics & moral philosophy, Comparative Politics, Warfare and defence, Bio-ethics