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Examines the biopolitical fetishisation of technology in contemporary practices of war, and explores how masculinity is being rearticulated within the context of US militarism. This book also explores the ethico-political possibilities of technology and the attending claims that advanced technology are both liberatory and transgressive.
List of contents
Introduction: Reading Moments of US Militarism from the Margins of International Politics PART I: Contextualising Moments of US Militarism 1. Technologies of (In)Security: Contextualising Moments of Militarism PART II: Technologies of (In)Security 2. There are Monsters Among ‘US’: The War on Terror and Homeland (In)Security 3. Tales of the Shield: Missiles, Masculinity & Biopower 4. Bodies of Technology: Cyborg Soldiers and Militarised Masculinities PART III: Productions of Bare Life 5. The Biopolitics of Death: Ritual Burials in the War on/of Terror and the Production of Homo Sacer 6. Femina Sacra: The War on/of Terror, Women, and the Feminine Conclusion: Fleshy Politics
About the author
Cristina Masters is lecturer in the Department of Politics at the University of Manchester. She has a Phd from York University, Toronto, and is co-editor of The Logics of Biopower and the War on Terror: Living, Dying, Surviving (2007).
Summary
This book explores how masculinity is being rearticulated within the context of modern war's festishation of technology, providing a sustained critique of US militarism.
