Virtual Weaponry: The Militarized Internet In Hollywood War Films

Aaron Tucker
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Virtual Weaponry: The Militarized Internet In Hollywood War Films

Aaron Tucker
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250 PAGESENGLISH

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  • Published date: Feb 10, 2026
  • Language: English
  • No. of Pages: 250
  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
  • ISBN: 9783319868035
  • Dimensions: 5.83" W x 1.0" L x 8.27" H

Aaron Tucker is author ofInterfacing with the Internet in Popular Cinemaalong with the poetry collectionspunchlinesandirresponsible mediums: the chesspoems of Marcel Duchamp. His current collaborative project,Loss Sets, translates poems into sculptures which are then 3D printed; he is also the co-creator of The ChessBard, an app that transforms chess games into poems (chesspoetry.com). He is currently a lecturer in the English Department and a Research Fellow with the Centre for Digital Humanities at Ryerson University in Toronto, Canada. 

"Virtual Weaponry is a timely mediation on cinema''s engagement with virtual technology. It traces how cinema, technocrats, and the military have attempted to think through the ethical uses of such technology and failed to go beyond the narrow confines of liberal humanist ideology. Tucker meticulously details how cinema''s failure reflects a larger, widespread cultural failure to engage with the destructive potential of new technologies, a failure that affects all of us. If, as Tucker argues, the engagements with technology espoused by technocrats and represented in film are how we should understand the digital world, we are headed for, and are already in, a problematic future." (Michael High, Department of Communication and Media Studies, Fordham University, USA)

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