Publication
Title
Innovating algorithmic warfare : experimentation with information manoeuvre beyond the boundaries of the law
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Abstract
This article analyses how algorithmic innovation in contemporary warfare unfolds through new alliances and contestations among civil and military actors in the face of an overarching rhetoric around the need to lead in “information manoeuvre”. Drawing on assemblage thinking and applying it to the case of the Land Information Manoeuvre Centre (LIMC)—a data centre founded by the Dutch Army that unlawfully tracked and algorithmically predicted its citizen’s sentiment and behaviour during the COVID-19 pandemic—the authors identify three logics that held this centre together and helped ward off critique: entrepreneurialism, informality, and experimentation. Emulating innovation practices elsewhere, together, these logics have important political repercussions beyond the Dutch case, pushing the expansion of military surveillance, pattern-finding and targeting, while undermining the rule of law and democratic accountability within algorithmic warfare.
Language
English
Source (journal)
Global society : journal of interdisciplinary international relations. - Basingstoke
Publication
Basingstoke : 2024
ISSN
1360-0826
DOI
10.1080/13600826.2023.2261466
Volume/pages
38 :1 (2024) , p. 49-66
ISI
001075500100001
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UAntwerpen
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Research group
Project info
Deadly Design: The politics of Engineering Lethal Autonomous Weapons.
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Affiliation
Publications with a UAntwerp address
External links
Web of Science
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Creation 04.10.2023
Last edited 28.02.2024
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