A theory of the drone / Grégoire Chamayou ; translated by Janet Lloyd.

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In a unique take on a subject that has grabbed headlines and is consuming billions of taxpayer dollars each year, philosopher Grégoire Chamayou applies the lens of philosophy to our understanding of how drones are changing our world. For the first time in history, a state has claimed the right to wa...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Chamayou, Grégoire (Author)
Other Authors: Lloyd, Janet, 1934- (Translator)
Language:English
Language of the Original:
French
Language and/or Writing System:
Translated from the French.
Published: New York ; London : The New Press, 2015.
Subjects:
Military ethics.
Drone aircraft > Moral and ethical aspects.
Physical Description:292 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Techniques and tactics
  • Methodologies for a hostile environment
  • The genealogy of the predator
  • The theoretical principles of manhunting
  • Surveillance and annihilation
  • Pattern-of-life analysis
  • Kill box
  • Counterinsurgency from the air
  • Vulnerabilities
  • Ethos and psyche
  • Drones and kamikazes
  • "That others may die"
  • A crisis in military ethos
  • Psychopathologies of the drone
  • Killing from a distance
  • Necroethics
  • Combatant immunity
  • A humanitarian weapon
  • Precision
  • The principles of the philosophy of the right to kill
  • Indelicate murderers
  • Warfare without combat
  • License to kill
  • Political bodies
  • In war as in peace
  • Democratic militarism
  • The essence of combatants
  • The fabrication of political automata
  • Epilogue: on war, from a distance.