| Other author/creator | Parks, Lisa author, editor. |
| Other author/creator | Kaplan, Caren, 1955- author, editor. |
| Other author/creator | Gregory, Derek, 1951- author. |
| Other author/creator | Hajjar, Lisa, 1961- author. |
| Other author/creator | Chandler, Katherine (college teacher), author. |
| Other author/creator | Dominguez, Ricardo, 1959- author. |
| Other author/creator | Stubblefield, Thomas author. |
| Other author/creator | Tahir, Madiha R., author. |
| Other author/creator | Nath, Anjali, author. |
| Other author/creator | Packer, Jeremy, 1970- author. |
| Other author/creator | Reeves, Joshua author. |
| Other author/creator | Asaro, Peter, author. |
| Other author/creator | Crandall, Jordan, 1958- author. |
| Other author/creator | Grewal, Inderpal, author. |
| 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. |
| Abstract |
"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."--Page [4] of cover. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Issued in other form | Online version: Life in the age of drone warfare Durham : Duke University Press, 2017 9780822372813 |
| LCCN | 2017014021 |
| ISBN | 9780822369585 hardcover alkaline paper |
| ISBN | 0822369583 hardcover alkaline paper |
| ISBN | 9780822369738 paperback alkaline paper |
| ISBN | 0822369737 paperback alkaline paper |
