Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents iii
3. List of Figures and Tables vi
4. Notes on Contributors viii
5. Acknowledgements xii
6. The Realities of Autonomous Weapons: Hedging a Hybrid Space of Fact and Fiction 1
7. Narratives and Theories
8. The Unreachable Myth: Killing Unknown Victims with Insensible Means by Unidentified Perpetrators for Unapparent Reasons 35
9. The AI/lure of US Airpower: Imaginaries of Disruption in the Pursuit of Technological Superiority Since the Early 20th Century 39
10. From Maschinenmensch to Robot Bubs: Female-Presenting Autonomous Weapons Systems in Live-Action Films 1927–2023 70
11. Autonomous Weapons in Fiction and the Fiction of Autonomous Weapons 96
12. From the Reel to the Real: Narratives of Weaponized Artificial Intelligence Technologies in India 120
13. Technologies and Materialities
14. Transformator 149
15. Il/legal War: Expanding the Frame of Meaningful Human Control from Military Operations to Democratic Governance 151
16. From Network-Centric Warfare to Autonomous Warfighting Networks: Recontextualizing Autonomous Weapon Systems Imaginaries 169
17. Governing Autonomies: Imagining Responsible Artificial Intelligence in the ‘Future Combat Air System’ European Armament Project 187
18. New Media, New Enemies: The Emergence of Automated Weapons in Counterterrorism 205
19. Politics and Ethics
20. XCI|XCIX, (91|99) 229
21. Engineering Moral Failure? The Challenges of Algorithmic Ethics for Lethal Autonomous Weapon Systems 232
22. Legitimizing and Contesting Lethal Autonomous Weapons Systems in Japan: A Multilayered Analysis of Public Discourse 259
23. The Reality of (Past) Future Air Combat Systems: Climate Wars, Carbon Costs and Rare Earth Elements 297
24. Showcasing Power, Performing Responsibility? Introducing Military Artificial Intelligence Discourses in China 311
25. Index 339