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The paper investigates the compatibility of the modern technologies of
warfare, specifically the use of offensive drones, with traditional military
ethics and suggests that the new technologies radically change the value
system of the military in ways which make large parts of the traditional
military ethics inapplicable. The author suggests that Agamben?s concept of
?effectivity? through ?special actions? which mark one?s belonging to a
particular community or profession is a useful conceptual strategy to
explore the compatibility of drone warfare with traditional military ethics;
this strategy shows mixed results at best.

Drones have become the signature tool of 21st-century warfare, particularly by US forces in the "war on terror". The fundamental rationale for drone use relies on their "surgical precision", supposedly saving civilian lives.

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.

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