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oapen-20.500.12657-224252024-03-22T19:22:59Z Capital, State, Empire Timcke, Scott Media & Communications political economy US military data capitalism global rule under-development inequality thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBC Cultural and media studies::JBCT Media studies 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. 2020-03-19 03:00:32 2020-04-01T06:50:27Z 2020-04-01T06:50:27Z 2018-07-27 book 1007756 9781911534372;9781911534389 http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/22425 eng Critical Digital and Social Media Studies application/pdf n/a 1007756.pdf University of Westminster Press 10.16997/book6 103509 10.16997/book6 2725c638-53f3-4872-9824-99c3555366f3 b818ba9d-2dd9-4fd7-a364-7f305aef7ee9 9781911534372;9781911534389 103509 KU Open Services Knowledge Unlatched open access
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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.
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