Matthew Ford and Andrew Hoskins, "Radical War in Ukraine"

In this episode, we welcomed back two guests who we interviewed almost exactly a year ago. In the early days of #Russia's invasion of #Ukraine, we invited Dr. Matthew Ford and Professor Andrew Hoskins onto the #BruteCast to discuss their book Radical War: Data, Attention and Control in the Twenty-First Century, which back then was slated for publication later in 2022. The book focused on "how contemporary war is legitimized, planned, fought, experienced, remembered and forgotten in a continuous and connected way, through digitally saturated fields of perception." The war was less than a month old when we talked with them, but already it had become clear that information and narrative, promulgated through countless personal electronic devices and social media accounts, were going to be key battlegrounds in the conflict.

As the invasion approaches its 1-year mark, Dr. Ford and Professor Hoskins returned to tell us what elements of #RadicalWar they've seen on Ukraine's battlefields, how Russia, Ukraine, and the world have adapted (or not) to the leveraging of the information domain, and more.

Radical War is available here: https://www.amazon.com/Radical-War-Attention-Control-Twenty-First/dp/0197656544

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