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Advocating weapons, war, and terrorism : technological and rhetorical paradox /

Examines commonplace conflicting beliefs that technology will either annihilate humanity or preserve humanity from annihilation. Argues that the paradoxical capacities of weapons influence how humanity understands violent conflict.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Hill, Ian E. J. (Ian Edward Jackson), 1974- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: University Park : Pennsylvania State University Press, [2018]
Series:RSA series in transdisciplinary rhetoric.
Subjects:
War and society.
Weapons > Social aspects.
Technology > Social aspects.
Rhetoric.
Paradox.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: technÄ“'s paradox and weapons rhetoric
  • Thomas Malthus's population bomb as a pre-text for technÄ“'s paradox
  • Preaching dynamite : August Spies at the Haymarket trial
  • Humane, all too humane : the chemical-weapons advocacy of Major General Amos A. Fries
  • Toward a peaceful bomb : Leo Szilard's paradoxical life
  • Industrial antipathy : irreparability and Ted Kaczynski's IEDs
  • Conclusion : in the presence of weapons and rhetoric.