Militarism, Gender and (In)Security - Biopolitical Technologies of Security and the War on Terror

This book examines the biopolitical fetishisation of technology in contemporary practices of war, and thus explores how masculinity is being rearticulated within the context of US militarism.

More specifically, it explores the ethico-political possibilities of technology and the attending claims that advanced technology are both liberatory and transgressive. It seeks to explore a dual question: is technology and its attending technologies of power liberating us from the strictures of gendered regimes of knowledge and thus from the deadly politics of war? In considering this question, the project inquires into the representative practices at work and the ethico-political implications therein. It does so by tracing various moments of militarism through both techno-scientific and masculinist discourses of power.

Thinking through disciplinary and biopolitical sovereign power, the book critically engages how in constituting technology through discourses of gender a