TY  - BOOK
AU  - Timcke,Scott
TI  - Capital, state, empire: the new American way of digital warfare 
T2  - Critical, digital and social media studies
SN  - 9781911534372
AV  - HM851 
PY  - 2017///
CY  - London
PB  - University of Westminster Press
KW  - Information society
KW  - Political aspects
KW  - Digital communications
KW  - National security
KW  - United States
KW  - Capitalism
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Société informatisée
KW  - Aspect politique
KW  - Transmission numérique
KW  - Communication studies
KW  - Economics, finance, business and management
KW  - Economics
KW  - Geopolitics
KW  - Interdisciplinary studies
KW  - International relations
KW  - Media studies
KW  - Political control and freedoms
KW  - Political economy
KW  - Politics and government
KW  - Reference, information and interdisciplinary subjects
KW  - Social discrimination and inequality Mod Social discrimination and inequality
KW  - Social issues and processes
KW  - Society and culture: general
KW  - Society and social sciences Society and social sciences
KW  - POLITICAL SCIENCE
KW  - American Government
KW  - State
KW  - Economic history
KW  - Economic conditions
KW  - États-Unis
KW  - Politique et gouvernement
KW  - Conditions économiques
KW  - Communication technologies
KW  - Digital society
KW  - Empire
KW  - Global capitalism
KW  - Inequality
KW  - Militarization
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 149-177) and index; Introduction -- chapter 1. A material critique of digital society -- chapter 2. Extraction, expansion and economies of bondage -- chapter 3. Calculation, computation and conflict -- chapter 4. Internal rule and the other America -- chapter 5. External rule and 'free-trade' -- chapter 6. Minds, brains, and disciplinary programs -- Conclusion. Digital coercion and the tendency towards unfree labour -- Notes -- References -- Index
N2  - "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 and how the militarization of digital society creates structural injustices and social inequalities. He analyses how new digital communication technologies support American paramountcy and conditions for worldwide capital accumulation. Identifying selected features of contemporary American society, Capital, State, Empire undertakes a materialist critique of this digital society and of the New American Way of War. At the same time it demonstrates how the American security state represses activists--such as Black Lives Matter--who resist this emerging security leviathan. The book also critiques the digital positivism behind the algorithmic regulation used to control labour and further diminish prospects for human flourishing for the '99%'. Capital, State, Empire contributes to a broader understanding of the dynamics of global capitalism and political power in the early 21st century."
UR  - https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctv5vddh1
ER  -