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Richardson, Michael, 1980- author.

Title Nonhuman witnessing : war, data, and ecology after the end of the world / Michael Richardson.

Publication Info.	Durham : Duke University Press, [2024]
	©2024

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Description	1 online resource (xiv, 238 pages) : illustrations
	text rdacontent
	computer rdamedia
	online resource rdacarrier
	text file rdaft
Series	Thought in the act
	Thought in the act.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents	Nonhuman Witnessing -- Witnessing Violence -- Witnessing Algorithms -- Witnessing Ecologies -- Witnessing Absence -- Toward a Politics of Nonhuman Witnessing.
Summary	"In Nonhuman Witnessing, Michael Richardson argues that we must decenter humans as the subjects of witnessing and expand the concept of witness to encompass nonhuman and machinic perception. Richardson contends that by opening witness to the nonhuman, we can gain a more finely tuned understanding of events in an era of escalating technoscientific war, algorithmic enclosure, and planetary ecological catastrophe. Further, nonhuman witnessing provides a lens for understanding the complex ways in which witnessing is enmeshed with violence itself in the forms of automated warfare which increasingly dominate global political violence. Richardson examines the media specificity of nonhuman witnessing across a varied archive: nuclear testing on First Nations land; digital infrastructures that produce traumas in everyday life; scientific imagery that probes beyond the spectrum of the human sensorium; algorithmic investigative tools; the surveillance of global climate monitoring; and remote warfare enacted through autonomous drones. In bringing together the converging fields of ecology and security, Richardson seeks to foreground the urgent ethical stakes of this convergence"-- Provided by publisher.
Note	Online resource; title from PDF title page (De Gruyter platform, viewed February 20, 2024).
Subject	Mass media -- Social aspects.
	Mass media -- Political aspects.
	Mass media and technology.
	Mass media -- Influence.
	Information society.
	Communication and technology.
	Evidence.
	Witnesses.
	Médias -- Aspect social.
	Médias et technologie.
	Médias -- Influence.
	Société de l'information.
	Communication et technologie.
	Évidence.
	SOCIAL SCIENCE / Privacy & Surveillance (see also POLITICAL SCIENCE / Privacy & Surveillance)
	SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies.
	SOCIAL SCIENCE / Privacy & Surveillance
	Communication and technology
	Evidence
	Information society
	Mass media and technology
	Mass media -- Influence
	Mass media -- Political aspects
	Mass media -- Social aspects
	Witnesses
Other Form:	Print version: Richardson, Michael, 1980- Nonhuman witnessing. Durham : Duke University Press, 2024 9781478025641 (DLC) 2023015594 (OCoLC)1407284529
ISBN	9781478027782 (ebook)
	1478027789 (ebook)
	9781478093930 (ebook other)
	1478093935 (ebook other)
	9781478025641 (paperback)
	1478025646 (paperback)
	9781478020905 (hardcover)
	1478020903 (hardcover)