{"product_id":"the-world-according-to-military-targeting-isbn-9780262552349","title":"The World According to Military Targeting","description":"\u003cb\u003eA revealing account of the prevalence—and alarming ubiquity—of military targeting, and how it has become a self-propelling worldview driven by dominance, violence, and power.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe World According to Military Targeting \u003c\/i\u003eengages directly with our grave world condition, asking how we ended up in a “closed world” made for military targeting by military targeting. In this book, Erik Reichborn-Kjennerud explores how the operational logics and seductive forces of targeting produce a world in which the only ways to think about politics and security is through military supremacy, endless war, and global domination, with serious implications for social and political life.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOffering a critical investigation of military targeting through the lenses of its historical formation, current operations, and future implications, the author presents an innovative investigation into targeting’s radical knowledge production, how it abstracts and brings into being new worlds, and the violence and destructive effects it generates. Through an interdisciplinary lens, the book draws attention to military doctrine and methodologies; statistical thought and practice; the mathematical and computational techniques of data production, processing, and modeling; and the so-called machine-learning algorithms and AI of today. The resulting narrative provides novel insights into how imagining the world, producing the world, and operationalizing the world are always wrapped up in each other and profoundly embedded in sociotechnical systems.Contents:\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgements \u003cbr\u003eWelcome to the World of Targeting \u003cbr\u003eReconceptualizing Military Targeting \u003cbr\u003eThe Enemy as A System – The Geopolitics of Strategic Paralysis \u003cbr\u003eHamlets, Humans and Worms – Computing the Environment in Vietnam \u003cbr\u003eFeeding the Network – Hunting for Signatures \u003cbr\u003eTinker, Tailor…Trial nd Error – Experimental Design and the ‘Algorhythmic’ \u003cbr\u003eConclusions, or Future Beginnings \u003cbr\u003eEndnotes“Providing a master class in deep and generative scholarship, Reichborn-Kjennerud chronicles the deadly logics that perpetuate worlds of warfighting, from the systems thinking of the last century to the data-driven algorithms of the present.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e— Lucy Suchman, Professor Emerita, Lancaster University\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Erik Reichborn-Kjennerud develops a lucid and in-depth exploration of the world-making powers of military targeting. By interweaving historical and sociotechnical detail, the book problematizes the continuities and transformations of violence and destruction.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e— Claudia Aradau, Professor of International Politics, King’s College London\u003c\/b\u003eErik Reichborn-Kjennerud is Senior Research Fellow at the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs (NUPI). His interdisciplinary research interest lies at the intersection of war and political violence, history of science and technology, and critical theory.","brand":"The MIT Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46305120551141,"sku":"NP9780262552349","price":60.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780262552349.jpg?v=1767742308","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/the-world-according-to-military-targeting-isbn-9780262552349","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}