Research Catalog

Title

InfoWar / editors, Gerfried Stocker, Christine Schöpf.

Publication

Wien : Springer, 1998.

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Additional Authors

• Stocker, Gerfried.
• Schöpf, Christine
• Ars Electronica (1998 : Linz, Austria)

Description

302 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Summary

The saying that "war is the father of all things" can nowhere be more aptly applied than to our modern information and communication technology, for it was military research that spurred on the development both of the computer and the Internet. In what way is the military origin of these technologies going to affect their civil application -- what consequences is it going to have? What forms of war will the information society bring about, what kind of conflicts are going to take place, and on what fronts? Information, a decisive economic and cultural resource of modern society, has now become central to military-strategic deliberations. Is the global information network going to become the "battlefield of the future"? All these are questions that have a severe effect on the civil economy and society. Not only new weapon systems and military strategies play a big part in future conflicts but also information, the "strategic weapon" as well as the power of the media as a political power.

Alternative Title

Ars Electronica 98

Subject

• Information society > Congresses
• Power (Social sciences) in art > Congresses
• Art, Modern > 20th century > Exhibitions

Genre/Form

• Aufsatzsammlung.
• Conference papers and proceedings
• Exhibition catalogs

Note

• "Addresses delivered at the Ars Electronica Festival 98 [Linz, Austria, Sept. 7-12, 1998] Symposium "INFOWAR - information.macht.krieg" plus nine additional papers"--P. 10.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 291-295).

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

InfoWar --- Cyberwar is Coming! --- Information Warfare - Words Matter --- Information Warfare - A New Challenge --- The People's Information War --- InfoWar and Authority --- From PLATO to NATO --- National Security and Infrastructural Warfare --- The Crisis of InfoWar --- The Empire Strikes Back --- Electronic Ways of Death --- Norn Attacks and Marine Doom --- Economics, Computers and the War Machine --- Self Organizing Evolution in Financial Markets and Elsewhere --- Asian Crisis: Blood in the Shark Tank --- The Media Coup d'Etat --- All Power Procedes from the Picture --- Star Wars - Conflict and Media in the Satellite Age --- Coercion and Countermeasures - The Information Arms Race --- Radical Media Pragmatism Strategies for Techno-Social Movements --- Don't Panic! Hack it! --- Sabotage and the New World Order --- Intelligent Machines - Beyond Information --- Invisible Harvest (of the DataBodies) --- Diabolical Invisibility or The Truth is Out There --- On the History of the Theory of Information Warfare.

ISBN

3211831916

OCLC

• 40377105
• SCSB-12087457

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library