i'll second jeremy's suggestion of der derian. there's also Cyborg Citizen: Politics in the Posthuman Age by chris hables gray but it really just touches the surface of things. it would be hard to do this without checking out paul virilio. and mckenzie wark. my main suggestion would be to go directly to the web sites of the corporations that are building such warfare. they are incredibly candid and proud of what they are building and share to the public all kinds of wild stuff. they are also willing to send press kits to any soul remotely possible in the war machines they build. david On Tue, 4 Nov 2003, jeremy hunsinger wrote:
here are some possible books James Der Derian "Virtuous War" and http://www.watsoninstitute.org/project_detail.cfm?id=1 Manuel De Landa "War in the Age of Intelligent Machines" Arquila, Networks and Netwars: The Future of Terror, Crime, and Militancy and Megan Boler a colleague of mine from VT, now at OISE produced this http://www.tandl.vt.edu/Foundations/mediaproject/home.htm and then there is http://www.cddc.vt.edu/host/lnc/ which has a listserv that frequently deals with the discourses of war in new capitalism
The Network Centric Warfare group is still around too(though it may have been renamed), but if you really want to see the discourse of war in a networked environment see the darpa project descriptions since 1998. It's a paper I've been meaning to write, but it's been tabled.
as for the gentleman you refer to, i'd refer you to the list archives http://www.aoir.org/mailman/listinfo/air-l
On Nov 4, 2003, at 9:10 AM, andrew.herman@comcast.net wrote:
Friends-
I have a graduate student who is currently working on a paper on the Internet and the discourses and conduct of 21st centrury warfare. Believe it or not, we are having trouble finding academic writing on the topic. Does anyone have any suggestions?
One of the topics he/we are interested in is what the Department of Defense calls "Network Centric Warfare". Last spring, I remember there being a post to the AIR listserv from an officer who was teaching the topic at, I believe, the NAval War College. Does anybody know/remember this person? Is s/he still on the list.
In any event, any help would be greatly appreciated.
Andrew Herman
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