Drone cultures : from surveillance and warfare to literature and art / John Muthyala.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Muthyala, John, 1966- Author.

Series:

Bloomsbury studies in digital cultures

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Drone aircraft--Social aspects.

Drone aircraft.

Drone aircraft--Moral and ethical aspects.

Humanities.

Digital humanities.

digital humanities.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Place of Publication:

New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2026.

Summary:

"The drone is an object of contradiction. On the one hand, it is a tool of dominance, destruction and death while on the other, as this book shows, it is a tool for education, creativity and entertainment. Examining issues such as drone warfare, the digital humanities, surveillance culture and political oppression, biopolitics, AI, and literary and artistic representations of (and using) drone technology, this book demonstrates why we should stop thinking of drones as agents of chaos and death and consider how they are fundamentally transforming our ideas of art, privacy, space, time, dignity, transparency, accountability, and democracy"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Rise of the drone : Mobile eye of power

The global anarchy of the surveillant assemblage

Biopolitics, necropolitics, and ethics in a drone world

Drone, baby, drone : Techno-neocolonialism and postcolonial mediations in Namwali Serpell’s *The Old Drift*

The new aesthetic : Post-digitality, eversion, and drone cultures

Drone dispositions in art and culture.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Muthyala, John, 1966- Drone cultures.

ISBN:

9781350530485

1350530484

9781350530478

1350530476

9781350530621

135053062X

OCLC:

1551482084

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license