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Proto-Algorithmic War: How the Iraq War became a laboratory for algorithmic logics
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Proto-Algorithmic War: How the Iraq War became a laboratory for algorithmic logics
Current price: $139.99
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Proto-Algorithmic War: How the Iraq War became a laboratory for algorithmic logics
Current price: $139.99
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This book details the emergence of a nascent algorithmic war culture in the context of the Iraq War (2003-2010) in relation to the data-driven early 20
century British Mandate for Iraq. Through a series of five inquiries into the ways in which the Iraq War attempted to and often failed tosee population and territory as digital and further proto-algorithmic entities, it offers an insight into the digitization and further unmanned automaton of war. It does so through a comparative historical framework reaching back to the quantification techniques harnessed during the British Mandate for Iraq (1918-1932) in order to explicate the parallels and complicated the diversions between the numerical logics that have driven both military state-building enterprises.