| Title | Networked Nightmares |
|---|---|
| Subtitle | On Our Dionysian Post-Military Condition |
| Contributor | Manabrata Guha (author) |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.21983/P3.0149.1.05 |
| Landing page | https://punctumbooks.com/titles/digital-dionysus/ |
| License | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/ |
| Copyright | Guha, Manabrata |
| Publisher | punctum books |
| Published on | 2016-09-12 |
| Long abstract | While the world made fun of Donald Rumsfeld for his obser-vations regarding the “unknown unknowns” gaffe, hidden in the rhetoric a quiet revolution in military affairs was underway.1More precisely, it was a subtle but significant revolution in mili-tary concepts. Mass and firepower — the traditional metrics of military capability — were not (as is most often argued) undermined; rather, they were being augmented (and recontextual-ized) with a terminological turn that reflects, if nothing else, the significance of the impact of the Age of Information on military affairs. At the very least, the conduct of war was being recon-sidered in a network-centric sense. |
| Page range | pp. 62–81 |
| Print length | 20 pages |
| Language | English (Original) |