Warrior Geeks

"Warrior Geeks "surveys the cybernetic technologies aiming to incorporate soldiers into a cybernetic system through which the military can read their thoughts and mold them accordingly. It considers the anticipated cooperation of men and robots on the battlefields of tomorrow, and it measures the extent to which armies may one day be able to reengineer warriors through pharmacological manipulation.

Harking back to the Greeks and Aristotle's original conception of virtue ethics and the proper contours of war, Christopher Coker believes modern humans are on the verge of losing touch with their humanity. War can only be rendered more humane if we recall the wisdom of our ancestors, he claims, yet unfortunately modern society is about to subcontract its ethical self to machines. In revaluing technology, we devalue our humanity, or the posthuman condition. By changing our functional and performative relationship to technology, we irrevocably alter our subjectivity and the existential dimensions of war.

Post Human warfare is a continuation of the symbiotic relationship between humanity and war. This study is a first and raises questions about the future of the relationship outlined above