Suchergebnisse

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

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Acknowledgments -- INTRODUCTION -- 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 -- 4. (IM)MATERIAL TERROR. Incitement to Violence Discourse as Racializing Technology in the War on Terror -- 5. VERTICAL MEDIATION AND THE U.S. DRONE WAR IN THE HORN OF AFRICA -- 6. DRONE-O- RAMA. Troubling the Temporal and Spatial Logics of Distance Warfare -- 7. DRONOLOGIES. Or Twice-Told Tales -- 8. IN PURSUIT OF OTHER NETWORKS. Drone Art and Accelerationist Aesthetics -- 9. THE CONTAINMENT ZONE -- 10. STONERS, STONES, AND DRONES. Transnational South Asian Visuality from Above and Below -- 11. TAKING PEOPLE OUT. Drones, Media/Weapons, and the Coming Humanectomy -- 12. THE LABOR OF SURVEILLANCE AND BUREAUCRATIZED KILLING. New Subjectivities of Military Drone Operators -- 13. LETTER FROM A SENSOR OPERATOR -- 14. MATERIALITIES OF THE ROBOTIC -- 15. DRONE IMAGINARIES. The Technopolitics of Visuality in Postcolony and Empire -- Bibliography -- Contributors -- Index

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.