Life in the Age of Drone Warfare

Published by Duke University Press 2017

Life in the Age of Drone Warfare

Edited by: Lisa Parks and Caren Kaplan

https://doi.org/10.1515/9780822372813

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About this book

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.

Author / Editor information

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.

Reviews

"This truly interdisciplinary work will challenge conventional understandings of a quickly emerging academic area. Those seeking a purely empirical analysis of how drone technology has changed the landscape might be left seeking slightly more, but they will be exposed to a series of well-constructed, timely arguments throughout this volume. Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty."

-- W. Miller Choice

"An extensive and thorough compendium."

-- Aurelio Cianciotta Neural

"A masterful document, as fraught and anxiety‑inducing as its topic is, the book is, as they say, required reading. . . . I am eager to read more from any one of the authors included in it."

-- Matthew Chambers New Americanist

"A comprehensive feminist and critical intervention. . . . A decisive feminist and anti-racist contribution to security and surveillance studies that provides a diverse range of interdisciplinary lenses."

-- Abigail Curlew Surveillance & Society

"The collection of essays in Life in the Age of Drone Warfare offers a nice corrective to the over-proliferation of studies and artistic practices using drones in contemporary media studies . . . Taken together, the pieces map a fairly comprehensive landscape of the discourse and lived realities around the drone war, in particular the militarization of consumption across the racialized divides of the Global North and the Global South."

-- Patrick Brodie Synoptique

"Life in the Age of Drone Warfare is an eclectic collection of fascinating articles. . . .Together, these voices show that while we don’t yet know everything we need to about military drones, we do know they are over-determined."

-- Chris Hables Gray Technology and Culture

"Both appealing and relevant to a large audience and offers an exemplary model for continued interdisciplinary research within the critical humanities. . . . The contributions to this book are exemplary of well-researched, critical, and interdisciplinary work in the humanities."

-- Hugo Ljungbäck International Journal of Communication

"This book is in an exciting and innovative collection that promotes a critical reading of drones and does much to break down the static and realist assumptions that frequently inform this issue."

-- Michelle Bentley Politics, Religion & Ideology

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
CONTENTS Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
INTRODUCTION Lisa Parks and Caren Kaplan Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
PART I. JURIDICAL, GENEALOGICAL, AND GEOPOLITICAL IMAGINARIES
1. DIRTY DANCING. Drones and Death in the Borderlands Derek Gregory Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	25
2. LAWFARE AND ARMED CONFLICTS. A Comparative Analysis of Israeli and U.S. Targeted Killing Policies and Legal Challenges against Them Lisa Hajjar Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	59
3. AMERICAN KAMIKAZE. Television-Guided Assault Drones in World War II Katherine Chandler Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	89
4. (IM)MATERIAL TERROR. Incitement to Violence Discourse as Racializing Technology in the War on Terror Andrea Miller Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	112
5. VERTICAL MEDIATION AND THE U.S. DRONE WAR IN THE HORN OF AFRICA Lisa Parks Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	134
PART II. PERCEPTION AND PERSPECTIVE
6. DRONE-O- RAMA. Troubling the Temporal and Spatial Logics of Distance Warfare Caren Kaplan Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	161
7. DRONOLOGIES. Or Twice-Told Tales Ricardo Dominguez Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	178
8. IN PURSUIT OF OTHER NETWORKS. Drone Art and Accelerationist Aesthetics Thomas Stubblefield Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	195
9. THE CONTAINMENT ZONE Madiha Tahir Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	220
10. STONERS, STONES, AND DRONES. Transnational South Asian Visuality from Above and Below Anjali Nath Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	241
PART III. BIOPOLITICS, AUTOMATION, AND ROBOTICS
11. TAKING PEOPLE OUT. Drones, Media/Weapons, and the Coming Humanectomy Jeremy Packer and Joshua Reeves Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	261
12. THE LABOR OF SURVEILLANCE AND BUREAUCRATIZED KILLING. New Subjectivities of Military Drone Operators Peter Asaro Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	282
13. LETTER FROM A SENSOR OPERATOR Brandon Bryant Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	315
14. MATERIALITIES OF THE ROBOTIC Jordan Crandall Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	324
15. DRONE IMAGINARIES. The Technopolitics of Visuality in Postcolony and Empire Inderpal Grewal Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	343
Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	367
Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	411
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	415

Language: English
Publisher: Duke University Press
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 448
Illustrations
- Other: 33 illustrations

eBook

Published: October 19, 2017
ISBN: 9780822372813