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Introduction: Aerial aftermaths -- Surveying wartime aftermaths: the first military survey of Scotland -- Balloon geography: the emotion of motion in aerostatic wartime -- La nature, coup d'oeil: "seeing all" in early panoramas -- Mapping "Mesopotamia": aerial photography in early twentieth-century Iraq -- The politics of the sensible: aerial photography's wartime aftermaths -- Afterword: Sensing distance

In the case of the attacks in Mumbai in November 2008 two primary discourses generative of biopolitics in the global matrix of war can be identified as a framework of knowledge about mobile technologies: first, that national security is threatened by the use of digital information technologies heavily symbolized by the use of mobile devices and the perceived manipulation of otherwise neutral forms of media by those deemed to be enemies; and, second, that national security is enhanced by the utilization of these technologies on the level of individuals and non-state groups within the nation to better practice democracy and to identify as citizen-consumer subjects. In the global matrix of war, the emphasis on digital information technologies and new media — especially mobile iterations — as weapons has generated the subjects of globalized and local technoculture in historically specific, militarized directions. In this context, contemporary media operate in ways that call for critical engagement rather than romanticization of a purely emancipatory sphere of social networking over and against a fully networked, enemy 'other'.

Air power was a contested military strategy during the first half of the 20th century. During World War 2, the doctrine of air power became a dominant part of US national defence contributing to the nationalisation of air space. In this paper I raise parallels between the rise of the doctrine of air power in the US during World War 2 and the concerns about national security following the attacks on September 11, 2001. The visual and spatial logics of air power generate a 'cosmic view' that unifies and fixes targets from the air. Yet, this articulation of nationalism is challenged by the current practices and conditions of warfare.

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 -- 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 -- 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