Drone imaginaries : the power of remote vision / edited by Andreas Immanuel Graae and Kathrin Maurer.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Graae, Andreas Immanuel, editor.

Maurer, Kathrin, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Drone aircraft--Social aspects.

Drone aircraft.

Aerial photography--Social aspects.

Aerial photography.

Technology and civilization.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 243 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour), digital, PDF file(s)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2021.

Language Note:

In English.

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

Demonstrates how cultural and emotional knowledge, made salient in aesthetic drone imaginaries, can provide an understanding of the effects of drone technology on human communities. Each chapter raises questions about the political function of art (resistance, critical reflection, intervention) that engages with drone technology, remote surveillance, processes of automation, as well as drone warfare.

Contents:

Introduction – Andreas Immanuel Graae and Kathrin Maurer

Part I: Visions

1. Flattened vision: Nineteenth-century hot air balloons as early drones / Kathrin Maurer

2. Signature strikes, drone art, and world-making / Thomas Stubblefield

3. The drone of data / Jan Mieszkowski

4. Empathy and the image under surveillance capitalism: Interview with photographer Tomas van Houtryve / Tomas van Houtryve and Svea Braeunert

Part II: Bodies

5. Disappearing, appearing, and reappearing: Imaging the human Body in Drone Warfare / Svea Braeunert

6. The gender politics of the drone / Lauren Wilcox

7. Borders and migration as seen from above / Rasmus Degnbol and Andreas Immanuel Graae

Part III: Communities

8. Swarm of steel: Insects, drones and swarming in Ernst Jünger’s The Glass Bees / Andreas Immanuel Graae

9. Artificial intelligence and the socio-technical imaginary: On Skynet, self-healing swarms and Slaughterbots / Jutta Weber

10. Stranger things: A techno-bestiary of drones in art and war / Claudette Lauzon

11. Eyes in the skies: Repellent Fence and trans-indigenous time-space at the US-Mexico border / Caren Kaplan

Coda: The life, death, and rebirth of drone art / Arthur Holland Michel

Index.

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on February 17, 2026).

ISBN:

1-5261-4594-4

OCLC:

1263808851