The Age of Dwindling American Empire: Soldiers, Gaming, and Affective Labor in Warzones

2018 ◽  
Vol 19 (4) ◽  
pp. 294-303
Author(s):  
Charles Fruehling Springwood
Keyword(s):  
Information Flow ◽  
Capital Flows ◽  
Democratic Citizenship ◽  
American Empire ◽  
Affective Labor ◽  
Bodily Movement ◽  
Rule Space ◽  
Combat Games ◽  
Laissez Faire ◽  
The Military

This essay examines the global logics of neoliberalism, and the biopolitical and affective modes of experience that neoliberalism generates. American soldiers, playing games and fighting wars, are living embodiments of the Military Industrial Media Entertainment Network, where boundaries are blurred, information flow is rapid, and cyber imagery prevails. But this is not merely a postmodern space of hybridity; neoliberalism is a biased, so-called laissez-faire re-organization of material and capital flows, designed to glorify the capacities of the market to rule space, consumption, and government without any regard for democratic citizenship. Playing with virtual fields of violence literally as they execute the violent technologies of war, to advance the neoliberal projects of American neoconservative ideologues, soldiers claim that these combat games help them to escape the emotional trials of war. These gamers and their games teach us that neoliberalism is more than privatization of capital, but that it is a way of organizing experience through habits of bodily movement and affect.

Victoria Barracks of Disappearance: Contested Post-Military Landscape in High-Density Urban Hong Kong

2019 ◽  
Vol 44 (2) ◽  
pp. 77-84
Author(s):  
Jing Xiao ◽  
Charlie Q. L. Xue
Keyword(s):  
Hong Kong ◽  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Research Paper ◽  
High Density ◽  
Alternative View ◽  
Heritage Protection ◽  
Laissez Faire ◽  
The Military

This research paper examines the post-military landscape of the Victoria Barracks regarding the high-density urbanism in Hong Kong from the 1970s to the 2000s. The article first interprets the concept of post-military landscape according to the ideology and urbanism of the then Hong Kong society. It then studies three plans of the Victoria Barracks of different stages, showing contestations between domestic, commercial and administrative powers in controlling the military redevelopment. Several contemporary architectural projects on the site will also provide an alternative view of the transformation according to the local economic laissez-faire policy. Its influence to the unsatisfactory heritage protection leads to the disappearance and false representation of the identity of this particular military and cultural heritage.

Critical Suspension

2021 ◽  
pp. 264-308
Author(s):  
Paul Haacke
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Nuclear Power ◽  
Industrial Development ◽  
American Southwest ◽  
American Empire ◽  
Kurt Vonnegut ◽  
American Novels ◽  
Immanent Critique ◽  
Cultural Ecological ◽  
The Military

This final chapter brings the historical argument to a close by examining forms of immanent critique in post-World War II American novels attempting to grapple with the geopolitics of the so-called “American Century.” Particular attention is paid to motifs of dangling, drifting, and “yo-yoing” in novels by Saul Bellow, Joseph Heller, Kurt Vonnegut, and Thomas Pynchon as well as relations between the irony of immanence and postmodern, postcolonial, and anti-imperialist re-imaginings of historical narrativization and representation. The chapter concludes by focusing on Leslie Marmon Silko’s novel Ceremony in order to consider how the trope of “ground zero” first emerged in reference to the testing of the atom bomb in the American Southwest, and how the military-industrial development of uranium mining and nuclear power remain closely connected to concerns about American empire and cultural, ecological, and planetary survival in the post-9/11 era.

scholarly journals The America Economic Crisis Of 2009/2010: Three Pillars Of American Strength That Will Lead To Recovery

2010 ◽  
Vol 8 (6) ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael J. Provitera ◽  
Michael P. Lambert ◽  
Maggie F. Neira
Keyword(s):  
American Revolution ◽  
John Locke ◽  
Private Property ◽  
Abraham Lincoln ◽  
American Empire ◽  
Natural Right ◽  
The People ◽  
Civil Order ◽  
The Military ◽  
Negative Connotation

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin: 0in 0.5in 0pt; mso-pagination: none;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">The notion of the Fall of the American Empire (Wojtowicz, 1993) is equivalent to the Peter Principal in that positive realization will always prevail over the negative perspective. Wojtowicz (1993) contends that Isaac Asimov wrote his foundation stories to show that every empire, even the most powerful one, has to fall eventually. Lawrence Peter (1984), an educator and hierarchiologist, argued that each manager will rise to the level in which he or she will fail. <span style="color: black;">Inevitably</span>, the Peter Principal failed because it placed a negative connotation on managerial growth. The same thing holds true with the Failure of the American Empire. America cannot fail because while there are many foundations of strength that has held America together since the American Revolution, there are three pillars that will help America continue to prosper. The three pillars are the strength of the military, the excellent education system, and the spirit of democracy that has led to capitalism. The spirit of democracy as Abraham Lincoln exemplifies as &ldquo;A government of people, by the people, for the people,&rdquo; has kept America vibrant and open for people to rise to the highest office in the free world (Powell and Powell, 1918). In the philosophical Age of Enlightenment, John Locke, a puritan in the England of Cromwell, put forth a new civil order: law based on reason, a government deriving its power from the governed, liberty to pursue individual goals as a natural right, and private property and its use in the pursuit of happiness (Wren and Bedian, 2009). These four ideas provide the bases of how our founders designed the America of today. This paper provides an overview of the three pillars that will influence the economic recovery of America in a positive way.</span></span></p>

Equipment Acquisition Data Information Integrated Management

2014 ◽  
Vol 513-517 ◽  
pp. 1342-1345
Author(s):  
Yan Mei Wu ◽  
Kai Guo ◽  
Qing Li Wang
Keyword(s):  
Information Flow ◽  
Information Exchange ◽  
Integrated Management ◽  
Equipment Acquisition ◽  
The Military ◽  
Further Development

Data information integrated management is the basis for realizing the informatization construction of equipment acquisition. In the equipment acquisition lifecycle, large amounts of data generated from the relevant departments of the military and the contractor. In order to realize the information exchange and sharing between the military and the contractors, we analyzed the equipment acquisition lifecycle information flow, proposed the architecture of data information integrated management of equipment acquisition based on PLM, and has carried on an example analysis so as to promote the further development of the informatization of equipment acquisition

scholarly journals Public Sector Provision of Free Agricultural Inputs in Uganda: The Rationale and Challenges of Operation Wealth Creation Programme

2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 83 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tabaro Robert ◽  
Katusiimeh Mesharch
Keyword(s):  
Public Sector ◽  
Information Flow ◽  
Central Government ◽  
Poor Quality ◽  
District Leadership ◽  
Wealth Creation ◽  
Programme Implementation ◽  
Household Level ◽  
Agriculture Sector ◽  
The Military

The paper analyses the rationale and challenges of public sector provision of free agricultural inputs in Uganda focusing on Operation Wealth Creation (OWC) programme. The programme officially started in 2014 and targets subsistence farmers in the country. OWC aims at commercialization of agriculture thus creating wealth and reducing poverty. It uses the military (Uganda Peoples Defence forces) to distribute and supervise delivery of inputs on the assumption that the army is efficient, organized and disciplined. The study was conducted in the new district of Sheema using purely a qualitative approach. We interviewed farmers, local leaders, opinion leaders and central government officials (key stakeholders) and conducted two Focus Group Discussions. Observation was also used to see how input distribution was being done. Our findings revealed that although OWC is well intended (creation of wealth and reduction of poverty at household level), it faces numerous challenges that hamper smooth implementation. The most common identified challenges were: small quantities of inputs supplied due to limited budget, poor quality inputs, elite capture and stringent entry requirements. Others are fear of the military by farmers, late deliveries of inputs and poor information flow between suppliers, district leadership and farmers. We recommend that government should increase agriculture sector budget, improve on quality of inputs and information flow between suppliers, district leaders and farmers but also fully involve the district leadership in programme implementation.

Democrazy—Dem Go Craze, O: Monitoring the 1999 Nigerian Elections

1999 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 29-33
Author(s):  
Darren Kew
Keyword(s):  
Transition Program ◽  
The Political ◽  
High Stakes ◽  
Political Class ◽  
Soccer Match ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Military

In many respects, the least important part of the 1999 elections were the elections themselves. From the beginning of General Abdusalam Abubakar’s transition program in mid-1998, most Nigerians who were not part of the wealthy “political class” of elites—which is to say, most Nigerians— adopted their usual politically savvy perspective of siddon look (sit and look). They waited with cautious optimism to see what sort of new arrangement the military would allow the civilian politicians to struggle over, and what in turn the civilians would offer the public. No one had any illusions that anything but high-stakes bargaining within the military and the political class would determine the structures of power in the civilian government. Elections would influence this process to the extent that the crowd influences a soccer match.

Dermatology patient visits in the military

1978 ◽  
Vol 114 (2) ◽  
pp. 289c-289
Author(s):  
R. L. Garcia
Keyword(s):  
The Military
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