Life in the age of drone warfare / Lisa Parks and Caren Kaplan, editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Parks, Lisa, editor.

Kaplan, Caren, 1955- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Drone aircraft.

Air warfare.

Drone aircraft pilots.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (449 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

Durham : Duke University Press, 2017.

Summary:

This volume's contributors offer a new critical language through which to explore and assess the historical, juridical, geopolitical, and cultural dimensions of drone technology and warfare. They show how drones generate particular ways of visualizing the spaces and targets of war while acting as tools to exercise state power. Essays include discussions of the legal justifications of extrajudicial killings and how US drone strikes in the Horn of Africa impact life on the ground, as well as a personal narrative of a former drone operator. The contributors also explore drone warfare in relation to sovereignty, governance, and social difference; provide accounts of the relationships between drone technologies and modes of perception and mediation; and theorize drones’ relation to biopolitics, robotics, automation, and art. Interdisciplinary and timely, Life in the Age of Drone Warfare extends the critical study of drones while expanding the public discussion of one of our era's most ubiquitous instruments of war.Contributors. Peter Asaro, Brandon Wayne Bryant, Katherine Chandler, Jordan Crandall, Ricardo Dominguez, Derek Gregory, Inderpal Grewal, Lisa Hajjar, Caren Kaplan, Andrea Miller, Anjali Nath, Jeremy Packer, Lisa Parks, Joshua Reeves, Thomas Stubblefield, Madiha Tahir

Contents:

Juridical, genealogical, and geopolitical imaginaries

Dirty dancing : drones and death in the borderlands / Derek Gregory

Lawfare and armed conflicts: a comparative analysis of Israeli and U.S. targeted killing policies / Lisa Hajjar

American kamikaze television-guided assault drones in World War II / Katherine Chandler

(Im)material terror : incitement to violence discourse as racializing technology in -the war on terror / Andrea Miller

Vertical mediation and the U.S. drone war in the Horn of Africa / Lisa Parks

Perception and perspective

Drone-o-rama : troubling the temporal and spatial logics of distance warfare / Caren Kaplan

Dronologies: or twice-told tales / Ricardo Dominguez

In pursuit of other networks : drone art and accelerationist aesthetics / Thomas Stubblefield

The containment zone / Madiha Tahir

Stoners, stones, and drones : transnational South Asian visuality from above and below / Anjali Nath

Biopolitics, automation, and robotics

Taking people out : drones, media/weapons and the coming humanectomy / Jeremy Packer and Joshua Reeves

The labor of surveillance and bureaucratized killing : new subjectivities of military drone operators / Peter Asaro

Letter from a sensor operator / Brandon Bryant

Materialities of the robotic / Jordan Crandall

Drone imaginaries : the technopolitics of visuality in postcolony and empire / Inderpal Grewal.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780822372813

0822372819

OCLC:

1139367065