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

"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 t...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Parks, Lisa (Author, Editor)
Kaplan, Caren, 1955- (Author, Editor)
Gregory, Derek, 1951- (Author)
Hajjar, Lisa, 1961- (Author)
Chandler, Katherine, 1978- (Author)
Dominguez, Ricardo, 1959- (Author)
Stubblefield, Thomas (Author)
Tahir, Madiha R. (Author)
Nath, Anjali (Author)
Packer, Jeremy, 1970- (Author)
Reeves, Joshua (Author)
Asaro, Peter (Author)
Crandall, Jordan, 1958- (Author)
Grewal, Inderpal (Author)
Language:English
Published: Durham : Duke University Press, 2017.
Subjects:
Drone aircraft.
Air warfare.
Drone aircraft pilots.
Physical Description:viii, 440 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Introduction / Lisa Parks and Caren Kaplan
  • Part I. 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 and legal challenges against them / 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
  • Part II. 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
  • Part III. 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.