Technology as a paradigm to investigate war

Datos Bibliográficos

ID21793272
AutoresXi Lin (0000-0001-5298-6893, Fudan University, autor de correspondencia)
Año2023
Volumen14
Número5
Páginas768-775
Fecha de publicación2023-11-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaGlobal Policy (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1758-5880 • E-ISSN: 1758-5899
EditorialWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/1758-5899.13293
OpenAlexW4387938877
IdiomaEN
Referencias citadas36

Critiquing Paul Kelly's unsophisticated grouping of political thinkers into two broad camps of a pre‐state and (post‐)state era, this article attempts to use the paradigm of technology as an alternative narrative to examine the phenomena of war, conflict and revolution. Drawing on Heidegger and Stiegler, the technology in war is regarded as a way of not only revealing our being in the world, but unconcealing the way we interact and construct intersubjectivity. Five paradigms of technology in war can be discerned, namely the first paradigm of primitive tools (from classical times to 1500 A.D.), the second one of early sciences and machines (1500–1830), the third one of interconnected systems (1830–1945), the fourth one of instruments of automation (1945–2000), and the current fifth one of artificial intelligence. These paradigms offer us a logical (while not necessarily linear) way to (re)examine the history of political thoughts

Cognitive science · Epistemology · History of technology · Narrative · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Computer Science · Digital Media and Philosophy · History · Law · Philosophy · Philosophy, Ethics, and Existentialism · Political Theology and Sovereignty · Psychology