Capital, State, Empire The New American Way of Digital Warfare / Scott Timcke.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Timcke, Scott, author.

Series:

CDSMS (Series)

CDSMS

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Capitalism--Social aspects--United States.

Capitalism.

National security--United States.

National security.

Digital communications--Political aspects.

Digital communications.

Information society--Political aspects.

Information society.

United States--Economic conditions.

United States.

United States--Politics and government.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvii, 187 pages)

Place of Publication:

University of Westminster Press 20180727

Language Note:

English.

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.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 149-177) and index.

ISBN:

1-911534-37-8

OCLC:

1065770188

Access Restriction:

Open Access Unrestricted online access