Ernst Schwarz
Biographic Data
| ID | 698218 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ernst Schwarz |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ernst |
| FAMILY NAME | Schwarz |
| SIGNATURE | SCHWARZ E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Queen Mary University of London |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9642-733X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 41 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1931 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
From blitzkrieg to blitzscaling: Assessing the impact of venture capital dynamics on military norms
Venture capital (VC) has recently emerged as a powerful new actor in the military domain. In the USA, VC investment in defence startups doubled between 2019 and 2022. A similar trend is noticeable in Europe, where billions are funnelled into AI-drone startup companies, spurred by escalating conflicts around the globe. VC investment is a 'high-risk-high-reward' way of financing military technologies, which requires fast-paced exponential growth at…
Imagining spectral violence: On morality and meaning in the cyber-nuclear age
This article is about our relationship to two lethal technologies that blow the mind: nuclear weapons and artificial intelligence - and their mutual imbrication. Our diagnosis is that we are missing an ethical critique adequate to the (emergent/resurgent) technologies of mass destruction. In particular, we are dissatisfied with the persistence and dominance of algorithmic reasoning and/in contemporary just war theory, manifest in deterrence theor…
Crimes of Dispassion: Autonomous Weapons and the Moral Challenge of Systematic Killing
Systematic killing has long been associated with some of the darkest episodes in human history. Increasingly, however, it is framed as a desirable outcome in war, particularly in the context of military AI and lethal autonomy. Autonomous weapons systems, defenders argue, will surpass humans not only militarily but also morally, enabling a more precise and dispassionate mode of violence, free of the emotion and uncertainty that too often weaken co…
Silicon Valley Goes to War: Artificial Intelligence, Weapons Systems, and Moral Agency
Across the world, militaries are racing to acquire and develop new capabilities based on the latest in machine learning, neural networks, and artificial intelligence (AI). In this paper, I argue that the shift into military AI is shaping human behaviour in heretofore unacknowledged and morally significant ways. Following Anders, I argue that as the human becomes digitally co-machinistic (mitmaschinell), they are compelled to adopt a logic of spee…
Günther Anders in Silicon Valley: Artificial intelligence and moral atrophy
Artificial Intelligence as a buzzword and a technological development is presently cast as the ultimate 'game changer' for economy and society; a technology of which we cannot be the master, but which nonetheless will have a pervasive influence on human life. The fast pace with which the multi-billion dollar AI industry advances toward the creation of human-level intelligence is accompanied by an increasingly exaggerated chorus of the 'incredible…
Death machines: The ethics of violent technologies
As innovations in military technologies race toward ever-greater levels of automation and autonomy, debates over the ethics of violent technologies tread water. Discussions about whether lethal drones are the most moral and effective tools to combat terrorism, or whether killer robots could kill more ethically than humans, often end up conflating efficiency with morality and legality with ethicality. Such conceptual confusions raise urgent questi…
Technology and moral vacuums in just war theorising
Our contemporary condition is deeply infused with scientific-technological rationales. These influence and shape our ethical reasoning on war, including the moral status of civilians and the moral choices available to us. In this article, I discuss how technology shapes and directs the moral choices available to us by setting parameters for moral deliberation. I argue that technology has moral significance for just war thinking, yet this is often…
Flesh and steel: Antithetical figures in the war on terrorism
The ongoing conflict in the war on terrorism puts two emblematic modes of violence into sharp relief: the drone, as an ostensibly rational, clinical and measured weapon of war, and suicide bombings, frequently portrayed as the horrid deeds of fanatics. In this article, I seek to challenge this juxtaposition and instead suggest that both modalities of killing are part of the same technologically-mediated ecology of violence. To do this, I examine …
Prescription drones: On the techno-biopolitical regimes of contemporary ‘ethical killing
As military technologies progress at a pace that challenges human cognitive and reasoning capacities, it is becoming ever more difficult to appraise the ethics of their use. In this article, I argue that the contours of ethical killing are shaped and constrained by a medical discourse that has its basis in a deeper regime of techno-biopolitical expertise. Narratives and representations of drones as surgical, ethical and wise instruments for count…
Hannah_arendt: An Arendtian Critique of Online Social Networks
New technologies in communications and networking have shaped the way political movements can be mobilised and coordinated in important ways. Recent uprisings have shown dramatically how a people can communicate its cause effectively beyond borders, through online social networking channels and mobile phone technologies. Hannah Arendt, as an eminent scholar of power and politics in the modern era, offers a relevant lens with which to theoreticall…
Dos etapas ideologicas del siglo XVIII en Mexico a traves de los papeles de la Inquisicion
Dos etapas ideológicas del siglo XVIII en México a través de los papeles de la Inquisición
El judio en la época colonial. Un aspecto de la historia rioplatense
Jewish Agricultural Settlement in Argentina: The ICA Experiment
Die Ortsnamen der Sudetenländer als Geschichtsquelle
Prescription drones: On the techno-biopolitical regimes of contemporary ‘ethical killing
As military technologies progress at a pace that challenges human cognitive and reasoning capacities, it is becoming ever more difficult to appraise the ethics of their use. In this article, I argue that the contours of ethical killing are shaped and constrained by a medical discourse that has its basis in a deeper regime of techno-biopolitical expertise. Narratives and representations of drones as surgical, ethical and wise instruments for count…
Crimes of Dispassion: Autonomous Weapons and the Moral Challenge of Systematic Killing
Systematic killing has long been associated with some of the darkest episodes in human history. Increasingly, however, it is framed as a desirable outcome in war, particularly in the context of military AI and lethal autonomy. Autonomous weapons systems, defenders argue, will surpass humans not only militarily but also morally, enabling a more precise and dispassionate mode of violence, free of the emotion and uncertainty that too often weaken co…
Hannah_arendt: An Arendtian Critique of Online Social Networks
New technologies in communications and networking have shaped the way political movements can be mobilised and coordinated in important ways. Recent uprisings have shown dramatically how a people can communicate its cause effectively beyond borders, through online social networking channels and mobile phone technologies. Hannah Arendt, as an eminent scholar of power and politics in the modern era, offers a relevant lens with which to theoreticall…
Günther Anders in Silicon Valley: Artificial intelligence and moral atrophy
Artificial Intelligence as a buzzword and a technological development is presently cast as the ultimate 'game changer' for economy and society; a technology of which we cannot be the master, but which nonetheless will have a pervasive influence on human life. The fast pace with which the multi-billion dollar AI industry advances toward the creation of human-level intelligence is accompanied by an increasingly exaggerated chorus of the 'incredible…
From blitzkrieg to blitzscaling: Assessing the impact of venture capital dynamics on military norms
Venture capital (VC) has recently emerged as a powerful new actor in the military domain. In the USA, VC investment in defence startups doubled between 2019 and 2022. A similar trend is noticeable in Europe, where billions are funnelled into AI-drone startup companies, spurred by escalating conflicts around the globe. VC investment is a 'high-risk-high-reward' way of financing military technologies, which requires fast-paced exponential growth at…
Technology and moral vacuums in just war theorising
Our contemporary condition is deeply infused with scientific-technological rationales. These influence and shape our ethical reasoning on war, including the moral status of civilians and the moral choices available to us. In this article, I discuss how technology shapes and directs the moral choices available to us by setting parameters for moral deliberation. I argue that technology has moral significance for just war thinking, yet this is often…
Flesh and steel: Antithetical figures in the war on terrorism
The ongoing conflict in the war on terrorism puts two emblematic modes of violence into sharp relief: the drone, as an ostensibly rational, clinical and measured weapon of war, and suicide bombings, frequently portrayed as the horrid deeds of fanatics. In this article, I seek to challenge this juxtaposition and instead suggest that both modalities of killing are part of the same technologically-mediated ecology of violence. To do this, I examine …
Jewish Agricultural Settlement in Argentina: The ICA Experiment
Die Ortsnamen der Sudetenländer als Geschichtsquelle
Jewish Agricultural Settlement in Argentina: The ICA Experiment
El judio en la época colonial. Un aspecto de la historia rioplatense
Dos etapas ideologicas del siglo XVIII en Mexico a traves de los papeles de la Inquisicion
Dos etapas ideológicas del siglo XVIII en México a través de los papeles de la Inquisición
Hannah_arendt: An Arendtian Critique of Online Social Networks
New technologies in communications and networking have shaped the way political movements can be mobilised and coordinated in important ways. Recent uprisings have shown dramatically how a people can communicate its cause effectively beyond borders, through online social networking channels and mobile phone technologies. Hannah Arendt, as an eminent scholar of power and politics in the modern era, offers a relevant lens with which to theoreticall…
Prescription drones: On the techno-biopolitical regimes of contemporary ‘ethical killing
As military technologies progress at a pace that challenges human cognitive and reasoning capacities, it is becoming ever more difficult to appraise the ethics of their use. In this article, I argue that the contours of ethical killing are shaped and constrained by a medical discourse that has its basis in a deeper regime of techno-biopolitical expertise. Narratives and representations of drones as surgical, ethical and wise instruments for count…
Death machines: The ethics of violent technologies
As innovations in military technologies race toward ever-greater levels of automation and autonomy, debates over the ethics of violent technologies tread water. Discussions about whether lethal drones are the most moral and effective tools to combat terrorism, or whether killer robots could kill more ethically than humans, often end up conflating efficiency with morality and legality with ethicality. Such conceptual confusions raise urgent questi…
Technology and moral vacuums in just war theorising
Our contemporary condition is deeply infused with scientific-technological rationales. These influence and shape our ethical reasoning on war, including the moral status of civilians and the moral choices available to us. In this article, I discuss how technology shapes and directs the moral choices available to us by setting parameters for moral deliberation. I argue that technology has moral significance for just war thinking, yet this is often…
Flesh and steel: Antithetical figures in the war on terrorism
The ongoing conflict in the war on terrorism puts two emblematic modes of violence into sharp relief: the drone, as an ostensibly rational, clinical and measured weapon of war, and suicide bombings, frequently portrayed as the horrid deeds of fanatics. In this article, I seek to challenge this juxtaposition and instead suggest that both modalities of killing are part of the same technologically-mediated ecology of violence. To do this, I examine …
Günther Anders in Silicon Valley: Artificial intelligence and moral atrophy
Artificial Intelligence as a buzzword and a technological development is presently cast as the ultimate 'game changer' for economy and society; a technology of which we cannot be the master, but which nonetheless will have a pervasive influence on human life. The fast pace with which the multi-billion dollar AI industry advances toward the creation of human-level intelligence is accompanied by an increasingly exaggerated chorus of the 'incredible…
Silicon Valley Goes to War: Artificial Intelligence, Weapons Systems, and Moral Agency
Across the world, militaries are racing to acquire and develop new capabilities based on the latest in machine learning, neural networks, and artificial intelligence (AI). In this paper, I argue that the shift into military AI is shaping human behaviour in heretofore unacknowledged and morally significant ways. Following Anders, I argue that as the human becomes digitally co-machinistic (mitmaschinell), they are compelled to adopt a logic of spee…
Crimes of Dispassion: Autonomous Weapons and the Moral Challenge of Systematic Killing
Systematic killing has long been associated with some of the darkest episodes in human history. Increasingly, however, it is framed as a desirable outcome in war, particularly in the context of military AI and lethal autonomy. Autonomous weapons systems, defenders argue, will surpass humans not only militarily but also morally, enabling a more precise and dispassionate mode of violence, free of the emotion and uncertainty that too often weaken co…
From blitzkrieg to blitzscaling: Assessing the impact of venture capital dynamics on military norms
Venture capital (VC) has recently emerged as a powerful new actor in the military domain. In the USA, VC investment in defence startups doubled between 2019 and 2022. A similar trend is noticeable in Europe, where billions are funnelled into AI-drone startup companies, spurred by escalating conflicts around the globe. VC investment is a 'high-risk-high-reward' way of financing military technologies, which requires fast-paced exponential growth at…
Imagining spectral violence: On morality and meaning in the cyber-nuclear age
This article is about our relationship to two lethal technologies that blow the mind: nuclear weapons and artificial intelligence - and their mutual imbrication. Our diagnosis is that we are missing an ethical critique adequate to the (emergent/resurgent) technologies of mass destruction. In particular, we are dissatisfied with the persistence and dominance of algorithmic reasoning and/in contemporary just war theory, manifest in deterrence theor…
Political science (11 works) · Law (9 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Philosophy (7 works) · Epistemology (6 works) · Environmental ethics (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Neuroethics, Human Enhancement, Biomedical Innovations (5 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Politics (5 works)