EMSIAC Wars: Re-inserting the Human in Bernard Wolfe's Limbo. Issue 3 (1st December 2020)
- Record Type:
- Journal Article
- Title:
- EMSIAC Wars: Re-inserting the Human in Bernard Wolfe's Limbo. Issue 3 (1st December 2020)
- Main Title:
- EMSIAC Wars
- Authors:
- Ryder, Mike
- Abstract:
- Abstract : Bernard Wolfe's dystopian satire Limbo (1952) remains a critically under-discussed work, and despite its many controversies, offers important insight into the ethical dilemmas surrounding modern-day drone warfare and human-machine relations. While the EMSIAC war computers in Limbo may be blamed for World War III, they are only ever a scapegoat to shift blame away from the humans who follow orders blindly, and themselves behave much like machines. To this end, this paper will explore the ethical implications of Wolfe's novel and what it means for the way we wage wars with robotic drones controlled by humans from afar.
- Is Part Of:
- Extrapolation. Volume 61:Issue 3(2020)
- Journal:
- Extrapolation
- Issue:
- Volume 61:Issue 3(2020)
- Issue Display:
- Volume 61, Issue 3 (2020)
- Year:
- 2020
- Volume:
- 61
- Issue:
- 3
- Issue Sort Value:
- 2020-0061-0003-0000
- Page Start:
- 249
- Page End:
- 267
- Publication Date:
- 2020-12-01
- Subjects:
- Science fiction -- History and criticism -- Periodicals
Science fiction -- Bibliography -- Periodicals
Science fiction
Bibliography
Criticism, interpretation, etc
Periodicals
809.38762 - Journal URLs:
- http://online.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/loi/extr ↗
http://liverpool.metapress.com/content/122345/ ↗ - DOI:
- 10.3828/extr.2020.14 ↗
- Languages:
- English
- ISSNs:
- 0014-5483
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- Legaldeposit
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