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Cyborg Dreams Urban Warfare and  US Military Techno-Science Stephen Graham Department of Geography University of Durham, UK
I US-Dominated Neoliberal Empire: Imaginative Geographies
 
 
 
The ‘Revolution in Military Affairs’ (RMA) ,[object Object]
 
II Global South Cities  as Main ‘Battlespace’ ,[object Object],[object Object]
Cities as  Interrupters  of Networked  Military Power    ,[object Object],[object Object]
[object Object]
‘ Urbanization of Insurgency’ ,[object Object]
Scale Mismatch:  Megacities vs Professional Army
Popular Orientalism:  Unveiling Intrinsically Devious Arab Cities
 
 
 
 
 
Popular Geopolitics Meets  Voyeuristic Verticality
 
 
Simulacral Participation
 
 
 
 
III The ‘Urban Turn’ in the RMA ,[object Object],[object Object]
Networked Soldier  as Cyborg
‘ MOUT’ Training Mini-Cities
 
 
Urban Terrain Zone Mapping
 
 
‘ Urban Resolve’: Jakarta 2015
 
New Surveillance Systems & Unmanned Vehicles
 
Fantasies of Robotised Killing ,[object Object]
[object Object],[object Object]
[object Object]
 
 
Tirpak (2001): humans required only “until UCAVs establish a track record of reliability in finding the right targets and employing weapons properly”.  Then “machines will be trusted to do even that”.     LOCPAD (Low Cost Persistent Area Design); ‘entire kill chain executed by the munition’. (Ewing, 2005)
 
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UAVs and Surveillance for Homeland? ,[object Object],[object Object]
“ The ultimate expression of sovereignty resides in the power and capacity to dictate who may live and who must die” Achille Mbembe ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

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