Life in the Age of Drone Warfare (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Lisa Parks, Parks

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Produktbeschreibung

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

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 448
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Oktober 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780822372813
• Artikelnr.: 54792742

Autorenporträt

Lisa Parks is Professor of Comparative Media Studies at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the author and coeditor of several books, most recently, Signal Traffic: Critical Studies of Media Infrastructures. Caren Kaplan is Professor of American Studies at the University of California, Davis, and the author and coeditor of several books, including  Aerial Aftermaths: Wartime from Above, also published by Duke University Press.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments  vii
Introduction / Lisa Parks and Caren Kaplan  1
Part I. Juridical, Genealogical, and Geopolitical Imaginaries  23
1. Dirty Dancing: Drones and Death in the Borderlands / Derek Gregory  25
2. Lawfare and Armed Conflicts: A Comparative Analysis of Israeli and U.S.
Targeted Killing Policies / Lisa Hajjar  59
3. American Kamikaze Television-Guided Assault Drones in World War II /
Katherine Chandler  89
4. (Im)Material Terror: Incitement of Violence Discourse as Racializing
Technology in the War on Terror / Andrea Miller  112
5. Vertical Mediation and the U.S. Drone War in the Horn of Africa / Lisa
Parks  134
Part II. Perception and Perspective  159
6. Drone-o-Rama: Troubling the Temporal and Spatial Logics of Distance
Warfare / Caren Kaplan  161
7. Dronologies: Or Twice-Told-Tales / Ricardo Dominguez  178
8. In Pursuit of Other Networks: Drone Art and Accelerationist Aesthetics /
Thomas Stubblefield  195
9. The Containment Zone / Madiha Tahir  220
10. Stoners, Stones, and Drones: Transnational South Asian Visuality from
Above and Below / Anjali Nath  241
Part III. Biopolitics, Automation, and Robotics  259
11. Taking People Out: Drones, Media/Weapons, and the Coming Humanectomy /
Jeremy Packer and Joshua Reeves  261
12. The Labor of Surveillance and Bureaucratized Killing: New
Subjectivities of Military Drone Operators / Peter Asaro  282
13. Letter from a Sensor Operator / Brandon Bryant  315
14. Materialities of the Robotic / Jordan Crandall  324
15. Drone Imaginaries: The Technopolitics of Visuality in Postcolony and
Empire / Inderpal Grewal  343
Bibliography
Contributors
Index