Patrick Crogan
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Patrick Crogan is a scholar whose work sits at the intersection of media theory, military technology, and cultural studies, with a particular focus on how simulation, artificial intelligence, and digital systems shape contemporary warfare and society. His research critically examines the technical and cultural logics underpinning military innovation, most notably through sustained engagement with drone warfare and autonomous robotic systems. In notable works such as "War, Mathematics, and Simulation: Drones and (Losing) Control of Battlespace" (2016) and "Visions of Swarming Robots: Artificial Intelligence and Stupidity in the Military-Industrial Projection of the Future of Warfare" (2019), Crogan interrogates how Western military powers have deployed and imagined drone technologies within the broader context of the "war on terror," revealing the ideological and technical assumptions embedded in these systems. Drawing on theorists such as Bernard Stiegler, Crogan situates these developments within wider questions about technics, human agency, and control. While his citation counts remain modest, his interdisciplinary contributions offer students and researchers a rigorous framework for understanding the deeply entangled relationship between military strategy, computational logic, and cultural imagination in the twenty-first century.
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