Targets of Opportunity

Targets of Opportunity

On the Militarization of Thinking

  • Autor: Weber, Samuel
  • Editor: Fordham University Press
  • ISBN: 9780823224753
  • eISBN Pdf: 9780823238323
  • eISBN Epub: 9780823224777
  • Lugar de publicación:  New York , Estados Unidos
  • Año de publicación: 2009
  • Año de publicación digital: 2009
  • Mes: Agosto
  • Idioma: Ingles

The title of this book echoes a phrase used by the Washington Post to describe
the American attempt to kill Saddam Hussein at the start of the war against
Iraq. Its theme is the notion of targeting (skopos) as the name of an intentional
structure in which the subject tries to confirm its invulnerability by aiming to
destroy a target. At the center of the first chapter is Odysseus’s killing of the suitors;
the second concerns Carl Schmitt’s Roman Catholicism and Political Form; the
third and fourth treat Freud’s “Thoughts for the Times on War and Death” and
“The Man Moses and Monotheistic Religion.” Weber then traces the emergence
of an alternative to targeting, first within military and strategic thinking itself
(“Network Centered Warfare”), and then in Walter Benjamin’s readings of
“Capitalism as Religion” and “Two Poems of Friedrich Hölderlin.”

  • Contents
  • Preface
  • 1 ‘‘A Rather Singular Strike’’
  • 2 ‘‘The Principle of Representation’’: Carl Schmitt’s Roman Catholicism and Political Form
  • 3 Wartime: Freud’s ‘‘Timely Thoughts on War and Death’’
  • 4 Doing Away With Freud’s Man Moses
  • 5 Networks, Netwar, and Narratives
  • 6 The Net and the Carpets
  • Notes
  • Index
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