Capital, State, Empire The New American Way of Digital Warfare

The United States presents the greatest source of global geo-political violence and instability. Guided by the radical political economy tradition, this book offers an analysis of the USA’s historical impulse to weaponize communication technologies. Scott Timcke explores the foundations of this impu...

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Main Author Timcke, Scott
Format eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published University of Westminster Press 27.07.2018
SeriesCritical Digital and Social Media Studies
Subjects
Cultural and media studies
data capitalism
global rule
inequality
Media & Communications
Media studies
political economy
Society and culture: general
Society and Social Sciences
under-development
US military
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Summary:The United States presents the greatest source of global geo-political violence and instability. Guided by the radical political economy tradition, this book offers an analysis of the USA’s historical impulse to weaponize communication technologies. Scott Timcke explores the foundations of this impulse, then demonstrates how the militarization of digital society creates structural injustices and social inequalities. He analyses how new digital communication technologies support and fund indirect and informal means that ensures American paramountcy, in turn sustaining enduring conditions for worldwide capital accumulation. Identifying selected features of contemporary American society, Capital, State, Empire undertakes a materialist critique of this digital society and assesses the impact of The New American Way of War, understood here as an outcome of a capitalist state’s military budgets priorities under imperial strategy.
ISBN:1911534378
9781911534389
1911534386
9781911534372
DOI:10.16997/book6