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Dave Young is an artist/performer/educator originally from Dublin, Ireland. His current research deals with the Cold War history of networked culture, exploring the emergence of cybernetic theory as an ideology of the information age, and the influence of military technologies on popular culture.

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Although certainly having their roots in the Cold War, the military strategies that have been developed to fight the War on Terror employ all the logic and advanced technologies of the modern control society. This text is an examination of these strategies, particularly how they might be emblematic of a transition from an era when society was disciplined by visual power, to the contemporary prevalence of modulations and soft control as characterised in modern 'automatic warfare'.