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 tools to exercise state power. Essays include discussions of the legal justifications of extrajudicial killings and how US drone strikes in the Horn of Africa impact life on the ground, as well as a personal narrative of a former drone operator. The contributors also explore drone warfare in relation to sovereignty, governance, and social difference; provide accounts of the relationships between drone technologies and modes of perception and mediation; and theorize drones’ relation to biopolitics, robotics, automation, and art. Interdisciplinary and timely, Life in the Age of Drone Warfare extends the critical study of drones while expanding the public discussion of one of our era's most ubiquitous instruments of war.
Contributors. Peter Asaro, Brandon Wayne Bryant, Katherine Chandler, Jordan Crandall, Ricardo Dominguez, Derek Gregory, Inderpal Grewal, Lisa Hajjar, Caren Kaplan, Andrea Miller, Anjali Nath, Jeremy Packer, Lisa Parks, Joshua Reeves, Thomas Stubblefield, Madiha Tahir
- Cover
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part I. Juridical, Genealogical, and Geopolitical Imaginaries
- 1.
Dirty Dancing: Drones and Death in the Borderlands
- 2.
Lawfare and Armed Conflicts: A Comparative Analysis of Israeli and U.S. Targeted Killing Policies and Legal Challenges against Them
- 3. American Kamikaze: Television-Guided Assault Drones in World War II
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(Im)material Terror: Incitement to Violence Discourse as Racializing Technology in the War on Terror
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Vertical Mediation and the U.S. Drone War in the Horn of Africa
- Part II. Perception and Perspective
- 6. Drone-o-Rama: Troubling the Temporal and Spatial Logics of Distance Warfare
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Dronologies: Or Twice-Told Tales
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In Pursuit of Other Networks: Drone Art and Accelerationist Aesthetics
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The Containment Zone
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Stoners, Stones, and Drones: Transnational South Asian Visuality from Above and Below
- Part III. Biopolitics, Automation, and Robotics
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Taking People Out: Drones, Media/Weapons, and the Coming Humanectomy
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The Labor of Surveillance and Bureaucratized Killing: New Subjectivities of Military Drone Operators
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Letter from a Sensor Operator
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Materialities of the Robotic
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Drone Imaginaries: The Technopolitics of Visuality in Postcolony and Empire
- Bibliography
- Contributors
- Index
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