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Title Life in the age of drone warfare / Lisa Parks and Caren Kaplan, editors
Published Durham : Duke University Press, 2017
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Description 1 online resource (viii, 440 pages)
Contents 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 / 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
Summary This interdisciplinary volume explores the historical, juridical, geopolitical, and cultural dimensions of drone technology and warfare, showing how drones generate ways of understanding the world, shape the ways lives are lived and ended on the ground, and operate within numerous mechanisms of militarized state power
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Drone aircraft.
Air warfare.
Drone aircraft pilots.
drone airplanes.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Military Science.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Media Studies.
Air warfare
Drone aircraft
Drone aircraft pilots
Drones militaires.
Guerre aérienne.
Form Electronic book
Author Parks, Lisa, editor.
Kaplan, Caren, 1955- editor.
LC no. 2017016815
ISBN 9780822372813
0822372819