The Teleological Battlespace: Leveraging Norbert Weiner's Cybernetic Paradigm

This paper leverages Norbert Weiner's cybernetic paradigm to understand and contextualize the nature and character of the emergent battlespace in the Age of Artificial Intelligence and Autonomous Weapon Systems. Given the emergence of the Internet of Things, which is co-constituting a technogeographical space, this paper contends that it is more productive to think of the emergent battlespace in cybernetic than in digital terms, which not only allows for the re-evaluation of the human, weapons, tactical mix, but which also necessitates a reassessment of the ethical concerns of warfare in the 21st Century.