Antoine Bousquet
Biographic Data
| ID | 3688060 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Antoine Bousquet |
| GIVEN NAMES | Antoine |
| FAMILY NAME | Bousquet |
| SIGNATURE | BOUSQUET A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Birkbeck, University of London |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7682-5349 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 152 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Inverting the triangle of power: The military–industrial complex after Silicon Valley
The American military–industrial complex is currently undergoing a profound transformation, recasting the triangle of political, military and corporate power anatomised by C. Wright Mills. Anchored in federally directed scientific research and a shared elite commitment to the geopolitical primacy of the militarised national state, the Cold War historical formation of the military–industrial complex was bound by a ‘military metaphysics’ that posit…
Nuclear existentialism: On the philosophical response to life and death under the bomb
In the aftermath of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and under the growing threat of planetary cataclysm, an array of prominent intellectuals grappled with the significance of nuclear war for the human condition and reflected upon the possibilities of escaping its peril. Following on the early interventions of Albert Camus and Jean-Paul Sartre, the collected thoughts of Karl Jaspers, Hans Morgenthau, and Günther Anders outline a phil…
Camp Century: The Untold Story of America's Secret Arctic Military Base under the Greenland Ice by Kristian H. Nielsen and Henry Nielsen
Reviewed by: Camp Century: The Untold Story of America's Secret Arctic Military Base under the Greenland Ice by Kristian H. Nielsen and Henry Nielsen Antoine Bousquet (bio) Camp Century: The Untold Story of America's Secret Arctic Military Base under the Greenland Ice By Kristian H. Nielsen and Henry Nielsen. New York: Columbia University Press, 2021. Pp. 352. This recent translation of a 2017 research monograph by two Danish historians of scienc…
The best of all possible nuclear worlds (or how Matthew Kroenig learned to stop worrying and love the bomb)
Becoming war: Towards a martial empiricism
Under the banner of martial empiricism, we advance a distinctive set of theoretical and methodological commitments for the study of war. Previous efforts to wrestle with this most recalcitrant of phenomena have sought to ground research upon primary definitions or foundational ontologies of war. By contrast, we propose to embrace war’s incessant becoming, making its creativity, mutability and polyvalence central to our enquiry. Leaving behind the…
Horizon Scan: Critical security studies for the next 50 years
What is changing?This: the contradictions and predations of patriarchal imperialist capitalism, and of the deeply racist and gendered material and symbolic order it produces, have enabled an accelerating, unrelenting, unfettered extractive stance toward the planet, its ecosystems and natural resources, and the plant and animal species and human beings that inhabit it.That stance has not only resulted in increasingly outrageous inequalities and co…
In Defence of Ontogenesis and for a General Ecology of War
The Eye of War: Military Perception from the Telescope to the Drone
Lethal visions: The Eye as Function of the Weapon
In measure to the development of projectile weaponry, the conduct of modern war has accorded perception with destruction, marshalling and enfolding human vision into ever more sophisticated sociotechnical assemblages of targeting. Drawing upon Paul Virilio’s notion of a ‘logistics of perception’, this article charts the four successive orders of targeting constituted by the alignment of the line of sight with the line of fire (aiming), the measur…
Becoming weapon: An Opening Call to Arms
How does a weapon become one? What are the materials, knowledges and affects implicated in a process of weaponisation? In what ways does a weapon wield its user? In an opening call to arms, this introduction to the special issue on ‘Becoming Weapon’ sets out the scope and ambition of a new research agenda for the study of weaponry in International Relations. After reviewing the existing literature on weapons and outlining its limitations, the art…
Ernst Jünger and the problem of nihilism in the age of total war
As a singular witness and actor of the tumultuous 20th century, Ernst Jünger remains a controversial and enigmatic figure known above all for his vivid autobiographical accounts of experience in the trenches of the First World War. This article will argue that throughout his entire oeuvre, from personal diaries to novels and essays, he never ceased to grapple with what he viewed as the central question of the age, namely that of the problem of ni…
Complexity theory and the War on Terror: Understanding the self-organising dynamics of leaderless jihad
Introduction: Complexity and the international arena
The influence of complexity theory on the study of international politics has been steadily growing ever since the first seminal accounts of the relevance of non-linear science in the works of Jame
Beyond models and metaphors: Complexity theory, systems thinking and international relations
The concepts, language and methods of complexity theory have been slowly making their way into international relations (IR), as scholars explore their potential for extending our understanding of the dynamics of international politics. In this article we examine the progress made so far and map the existing debates within IR that are liable to being significantly reconfigured by the conceptual resources of complexity. We consider the various onto…
Urbicide: The Politics of Urban Destruction by Martin Coward
Cyberneticizing the American war machine: Science and computers in the Cold War
American victory in World War II was perceived to be due in large part to its scientific and technological superiority, best exemplified by the development of the atom bomb. Throughout the Cold War, scientific theories and methodologies were recruited even more extensively to weigh on military and strategic affairs. Cybernetics, along with operations research and systems analysis, sought to impose order and predictability on warfare through the c…
Chaoplexic warfare or the future of military organization
Scientific methods and concepts have been exerting a powerful influence on the exercising of armed force since the Scientific Revolution and the dawn of the modern era. In association with the respective technologies of the clock, engine and computer, the scientific theories of mechanism, thermodynamics, and cybernetics have all in turn been recruited to shape distinct approaches to the challenges of imposing order on the chaos of the battlefield…
Time Zero: Hiroshima, September 11 and Apocalyptic Revelations in Historical Consciousness
This article considers the place of the Hiroshima bombing and the September 11 attacks as singular acts of violence constituting major points of rupture in the historical consciousness and chronological narratives of the Western world: Ground Zero is Time Zero. Geographically and temporally delineated instances of intense death and destruction, both acts have been construed as moments when the world `changed for ever'. Our schemata of interpretat…
Becoming war: Towards a martial empiricism
Under the banner of martial empiricism, we advance a distinctive set of theoretical and methodological commitments for the study of war. Previous efforts to wrestle with this most recalcitrant of phenomena have sought to ground research upon primary definitions or foundational ontologies of war. By contrast, we propose to embrace war’s incessant becoming, making its creativity, mutability and polyvalence central to our enquiry. Leaving behind the…
Beyond models and metaphors: Complexity theory, systems thinking and international relations
The concepts, language and methods of complexity theory have been slowly making their way into international relations (IR), as scholars explore their potential for extending our understanding of the dynamics of international politics. In this article we examine the progress made so far and map the existing debates within IR that are liable to being significantly reconfigured by the conceptual resources of complexity. We consider the various onto…
Becoming weapon: An Opening Call to Arms
How does a weapon become one? What are the materials, knowledges and affects implicated in a process of weaponisation? In what ways does a weapon wield its user? In an opening call to arms, this introduction to the special issue on ‘Becoming Weapon’ sets out the scope and ambition of a new research agenda for the study of weaponry in International Relations. After reviewing the existing literature on weapons and outlining its limitations, the art…
Time Zero: Hiroshima, September 11 and Apocalyptic Revelations in Historical Consciousness
This article considers the place of the Hiroshima bombing and the September 11 attacks as singular acts of violence constituting major points of rupture in the historical consciousness and chronological narratives of the Western world: Ground Zero is Time Zero. Geographically and temporally delineated instances of intense death and destruction, both acts have been construed as moments when the world `changed for ever'. Our schemata of interpretat…
Cyberneticizing the American war machine: Science and computers in the Cold War
American victory in World War II was perceived to be due in large part to its scientific and technological superiority, best exemplified by the development of the atom bomb. Throughout the Cold War, scientific theories and methodologies were recruited even more extensively to weigh on military and strategic affairs. Cybernetics, along with operations research and systems analysis, sought to impose order and predictability on warfare through the c…
Horizon Scan: Critical security studies for the next 50 years
What is changing?This: the contradictions and predations of patriarchal imperialist capitalism, and of the deeply racist and gendered material and symbolic order it produces, have enabled an accelerating, unrelenting, unfettered extractive stance toward the planet, its ecosystems and natural resources, and the plant and animal species and human beings that inhabit it.That stance has not only resulted in increasingly outrageous inequalities and co…
Lethal visions: The Eye as Function of the Weapon
In measure to the development of projectile weaponry, the conduct of modern war has accorded perception with destruction, marshalling and enfolding human vision into ever more sophisticated sociotechnical assemblages of targeting. Drawing upon Paul Virilio’s notion of a ‘logistics of perception’, this article charts the four successive orders of targeting constituted by the alignment of the line of sight with the line of fire (aiming), the measur…
Complexity theory and the War on Terror: Understanding the self-organising dynamics of leaderless jihad
Chaoplexic warfare or the future of military organization
Scientific methods and concepts have been exerting a powerful influence on the exercising of armed force since the Scientific Revolution and the dawn of the modern era. In association with the respective technologies of the clock, engine and computer, the scientific theories of mechanism, thermodynamics, and cybernetics have all in turn been recruited to shape distinct approaches to the challenges of imposing order on the chaos of the battlefield…
Introduction: Complexity and the international arena
The influence of complexity theory on the study of international politics has been steadily growing ever since the first seminal accounts of the relevance of non-linear science in the works of Jame
Nuclear existentialism: On the philosophical response to life and death under the bomb
In the aftermath of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and under the growing threat of planetary cataclysm, an array of prominent intellectuals grappled with the significance of nuclear war for the human condition and reflected upon the possibilities of escaping its peril. Following on the early interventions of Albert Camus and Jean-Paul Sartre, the collected thoughts of Karl Jaspers, Hans Morgenthau, and Günther Anders outline a phil…
The best of all possible nuclear worlds (or how Matthew Kroenig learned to stop worrying and love the bomb)
In Defence of Ontogenesis and for a General Ecology of War
Ernst Jünger and the problem of nihilism in the age of total war
As a singular witness and actor of the tumultuous 20th century, Ernst Jünger remains a controversial and enigmatic figure known above all for his vivid autobiographical accounts of experience in the trenches of the First World War. This article will argue that throughout his entire oeuvre, from personal diaries to novels and essays, he never ceased to grapple with what he viewed as the central question of the age, namely that of the problem of ni…
Time Zero: Hiroshima, September 11 and Apocalyptic Revelations in Historical Consciousness
This article considers the place of the Hiroshima bombing and the September 11 attacks as singular acts of violence constituting major points of rupture in the historical consciousness and chronological narratives of the Western world: Ground Zero is Time Zero. Geographically and temporally delineated instances of intense death and destruction, both acts have been construed as moments when the world `changed for ever'. Our schemata of interpretat…
Cyberneticizing the American war machine: Science and computers in the Cold War
American victory in World War II was perceived to be due in large part to its scientific and technological superiority, best exemplified by the development of the atom bomb. Throughout the Cold War, scientific theories and methodologies were recruited even more extensively to weigh on military and strategic affairs. Cybernetics, along with operations research and systems analysis, sought to impose order and predictability on warfare through the c…
Chaoplexic warfare or the future of military organization
Scientific methods and concepts have been exerting a powerful influence on the exercising of armed force since the Scientific Revolution and the dawn of the modern era. In association with the respective technologies of the clock, engine and computer, the scientific theories of mechanism, thermodynamics, and cybernetics have all in turn been recruited to shape distinct approaches to the challenges of imposing order on the chaos of the battlefield…
Urbicide: The Politics of Urban Destruction by Martin Coward
Complexity theory and the War on Terror: Understanding the self-organising dynamics of leaderless jihad
Introduction: Complexity and the international arena
The influence of complexity theory on the study of international politics has been steadily growing ever since the first seminal accounts of the relevance of non-linear science in the works of Jame
Beyond models and metaphors: Complexity theory, systems thinking and international relations
The concepts, language and methods of complexity theory have been slowly making their way into international relations (IR), as scholars explore their potential for extending our understanding of the dynamics of international politics. In this article we examine the progress made so far and map the existing debates within IR that are liable to being significantly reconfigured by the conceptual resources of complexity. We consider the various onto…
Ernst Jünger and the problem of nihilism in the age of total war
As a singular witness and actor of the tumultuous 20th century, Ernst Jünger remains a controversial and enigmatic figure known above all for his vivid autobiographical accounts of experience in the trenches of the First World War. This article will argue that throughout his entire oeuvre, from personal diaries to novels and essays, he never ceased to grapple with what he viewed as the central question of the age, namely that of the problem of ni…
Lethal visions: The Eye as Function of the Weapon
In measure to the development of projectile weaponry, the conduct of modern war has accorded perception with destruction, marshalling and enfolding human vision into ever more sophisticated sociotechnical assemblages of targeting. Drawing upon Paul Virilio’s notion of a ‘logistics of perception’, this article charts the four successive orders of targeting constituted by the alignment of the line of sight with the line of fire (aiming), the measur…
Becoming weapon: An Opening Call to Arms
How does a weapon become one? What are the materials, knowledges and affects implicated in a process of weaponisation? In what ways does a weapon wield its user? In an opening call to arms, this introduction to the special issue on ‘Becoming Weapon’ sets out the scope and ambition of a new research agenda for the study of weaponry in International Relations. After reviewing the existing literature on weapons and outlining its limitations, the art…
The Eye of War: Military Perception from the Telescope to the Drone
Horizon Scan: Critical security studies for the next 50 years
What is changing?This: the contradictions and predations of patriarchal imperialist capitalism, and of the deeply racist and gendered material and symbolic order it produces, have enabled an accelerating, unrelenting, unfettered extractive stance toward the planet, its ecosystems and natural resources, and the plant and animal species and human beings that inhabit it.That stance has not only resulted in increasingly outrageous inequalities and co…
In Defence of Ontogenesis and for a General Ecology of War
The best of all possible nuclear worlds (or how Matthew Kroenig learned to stop worrying and love the bomb)
Becoming war: Towards a martial empiricism
Under the banner of martial empiricism, we advance a distinctive set of theoretical and methodological commitments for the study of war. Previous efforts to wrestle with this most recalcitrant of phenomena have sought to ground research upon primary definitions or foundational ontologies of war. By contrast, we propose to embrace war’s incessant becoming, making its creativity, mutability and polyvalence central to our enquiry. Leaving behind the…
Camp Century: The Untold Story of America's Secret Arctic Military Base under the Greenland Ice by Kristian H. Nielsen and Henry Nielsen
Reviewed by: Camp Century: The Untold Story of America's Secret Arctic Military Base under the Greenland Ice by Kristian H. Nielsen and Henry Nielsen Antoine Bousquet (bio) Camp Century: The Untold Story of America's Secret Arctic Military Base under the Greenland Ice By Kristian H. Nielsen and Henry Nielsen. New York: Columbia University Press, 2021. Pp. 352. This recent translation of a 2017 research monograph by two Danish historians of scienc…
Nuclear existentialism: On the philosophical response to life and death under the bomb
In the aftermath of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and under the growing threat of planetary cataclysm, an array of prominent intellectuals grappled with the significance of nuclear war for the human condition and reflected upon the possibilities of escaping its peril. Following on the early interventions of Albert Camus and Jean-Paul Sartre, the collected thoughts of Karl Jaspers, Hans Morgenthau, and Günther Anders outline a phil…
Inverting the triangle of power: The military–industrial complex after Silicon Valley
The American military–industrial complex is currently undergoing a profound transformation, recasting the triangle of political, military and corporate power anatomised by C. Wright Mills. Anchored in federally directed scientific research and a shared elite commitment to the geopolitical primacy of the militarised national state, the Cold War historical formation of the military–industrial complex was bound by a ‘military metaphysics’ that posit…
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