Remote warfare : new cultures of violence / Rebecca A. Adelman and David Kieran, editors.
Considers how people have confronted, challenged, and resisted remote warfare Drone warfare is now a routine, if not predominant, aspect of military engagement. Although this method of delivering violence at a distance has been a part of military arsenals for two decades, scholarly debate on remote...
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| Language: | English |
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Minneapolis :
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[2020]
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| Physical Description: | viii, 337 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm |
| Format: | Book |
Contents:
- Introduction: Rethinking Killing at a Distance
- Part 1. Visions. 1. ⁰́₋An Entirely New Method of Conducting War at a DistanceС⁰́₊ : The First World War and the Air War of the Future
- 2. Warrior Woundings, Warrior Culture : An Ethos for Post-9/11 American War Culture
- 3. From Hermeneutics to Archives : Parasites and Predators in Homeland
- 4. Eye in the Sky : Persistent Surveillance Technology and the Age of Global War
- Part 2. Intimacies. 5. Of Games and Drones: Mediating Traumatic Affect in the Age of Remote Warfare
- 6. Over There? War Writing, Lethal Technology, and Democracy in America
- 7. С⁰́₋Wanted Dead or AliveС⁰́₊ : The Hunt for Osama bin Laden
- 8. Home, Away, Home : Remoteness and Intimacy in Contemporary Danish Veteran Literature
- Part 3. Reconfigurations. 9. Necrospace, Media, and Remote War : Ethnographic Notes from Lebanon and Pakistan, 2006-2008
- 10. Drones versus Drones : Ambient and Ambivalent Sounds against Remote Warfare
- 11. Bombs and Black Humor : Aerial Warfare and the Absurd
- 12. An Architecture against Dacoits : On Drones, Mosquitoes, and the Smart City.