POLSCI 4KK3 Lecture 12: November 25, 2014 - 4KK3
11 Jan 2015
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Responding calls in some neighborhoods while patrolling others. Distribution of resources; decisions are built into processes that deploy autonomous weapons. Wither the subject - where are the political actors in this. Missions of those who are the most powerful find important. Smart bombs when it bombs a wedding" underwrites the belief that it every happened because of its precision. Culpability of those who created smart bombs is mystified, the smart bomb malfunction. International war; all of the things interesting not in our bewildering interest; Articles are not looking for the site of political subject; Political actors; the sites of political subject hood. Technologies have good or bad applications; what applications they get deployed in. Ask where are the politics; do not ask what the technology, it is dependent on what we are to make of it. Just following orders is not something that we accept, yet people find themselves under pressure that is difficult to resists.
