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Huhtinen, Aki-Mauri. and Rantapelkonen, Jari. "The War Against the Other and the Us - Political and Philosophical Problems of Postmodern World�s Atmosfear" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the International Studies Association 48th Annual Convention, Hilton Chicago, CHICAGO, IL, USA, Feb 28, 2007 <Not Available>. 2009-05-24 <http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p178927_index.html>

Huhtinen, A. and Rantapelkonen, J. , 2007-02-28 "The War Against the Other and the Us - Political and Philosophical Problems of Postmodern World�s Atmosfear" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the International Studies Association 48th Annual Convention, Hilton Chicago, CHICAGO, IL, USA Online <PDF>. 2009-05-24 from http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p178927_index.html

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript Abstract: Thanks to the information revolution warfare has lost much of its effectiveness and all its glamour. The war of the information age has become an apocalyptic digital game between Western superpowers and the fundamentalism oriented poorer part of the world. This asymmetric totalitarian framework reflects an attitude that gives no chance to understanding the Other. As Emmanuel Levinas has said: �the relationship with the Other is not produced outside of the world, but puts in question the world possessed�. The difference between the Other and the Us does not depend on different properties, such as technological standards, but on an inevitable orientation of starting oneself toward the Other. Due to modern technology and economy, the mediated character of killing has increased its role in warfare. In fact, it appears that the more technologically mediated an act of killing is, the easier it is for a human being to kill. Thus technological advance has transformed the character and boundaries of killing. This raises philosophical questions concerning morality, human agency and technology that intertwine in the conditions of war. Questions such as this exemplify the requirements for rethinking of ethics in technological contexts. The problem of the position of the human being in the information age battle space came up when the losses of the coalition and especially of U.S. increased, and also when recruitment of soldiers for Iraq was no longer successful. Most terrorists have been invisible, as only a few of them have been convicted in courtrooms. Yet more innocent civilians and ordinary citizens have been killed in the total and fundamental war, even with use of high-tech war machine as �precision weapons�. Also our own citizens have been targeted by spy organizations � in case somebody is thinking or reading books that may indicate suspicious activity. As the 9/11 showed, there was a distinctive new feature: a privatised form of organized violence which was earlier impossible took place worldwide in information networks. The 9/11 united �we�, a hope of the future against the �other�, and a relic of the past. In addition to asking who is the �other� one can ask �Who are we�. Right after the 9/11, the French newspaper Le Monde answered the questions: �We are all Americans�.

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